Community : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Community	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Community
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
community n a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community" common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions" a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community" agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" Synonym(s): community, community of interests a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences Synonym(s): residential district, residential area, community (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other Synonym(s): community, biotic community
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Community \Commu"nity\, n.; pl. {Communities}. [L. communitas: cf. OF. communit[82]. Cf. {Commonalty}, and see {Common}.] 1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. The original community of all things. --Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. --W. Irving. 2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests. Creatures that in communities exist. --Wordsworth. 3. Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general. Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community. --Hallam. Note: In this sense, the term should be used with the definite article; as, the interests of the community. 4. Common character; likeness. [R.] The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. --H. Spencer. 5. Commonness; frequency. [Obs.] Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. --Shak.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Community, VA Zip code(s): 22306