COMMUNITY

Community

The term community has two distinct commutative meanings: 1) Community can refer to a usually small, social unit of any size that shares common values. The term can also refer to the national community or international community, and 2) in biology, a community is a group of interacting living organisms sharing a populated environment.

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community

Noun

  1. A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
    A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)
  2. A commune, or residential or religious collective.
  3. The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
  4. A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
  5. A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.
  6. Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
  7. common character; likeness.
  8. commonness; frequency


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