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Community

Definition: Community

Community

Adjective

1. Affecting the people or community as a whole; "community leaders"; "community interests"; "the public welfare".

2. Belonging to and maintained by and for the local community; "community parks".

Noun

1. A group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community".

2. A group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common; "the Christian community of the apostolic age"; "he was well known throughout the Catholic community".

3. Common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions".

4. A group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community".

5. The body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical community".

6. Agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests".

7. A district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences.

8. (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "community" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Community \Com*mu"ni*ty\, noun; plural Communities. [Latin communitas: compare to Old French communit['e]. Compare to Commonalty, and see Common.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Community

DomainDefinition

Avian

A group of organisms, generally of wide taxonomic affinities, occurring together. Many will interact within a framework of horizontal and vertical linkages such as competition, predation, and mutualism (Giller and Gee 1987:539) (cf Assemblage). (references)

Biology & Biotechnology

Group of populations linked together by a web of interrelationships referred to as the web of life. Source: European Union. (references)
 Any assembly of organisms living together, no particular ecological status being implied. Source: European Union. (references)

Environment

In ecology, an assemblage of populations of different species within a specified location in space and time. Sometimes, a particular subgrouping may be specified, such as the fish community in a lake or the soil arthropod community in a forest. (references)

Public Administration

The organization and system created by persons or groups of individuals or countries, variable in size and extent, that bring together common interests, values, or problems, outlooks and aspirations; Example:neighbourhood community, religious community, rural community, European community. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Community

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Community is a set of people (or agents in a more abstract sense) with some shared element. The substance of shared element varies widely, from a situation to interest to lives and values. The term is widely used to evoke sense of collectivity.

In a relatively liberal use of the term, people who use Wikipedia might be referred to collectively as the "Wikipedia user community". Here, what defines community is the same situation the members are in. Certain changes to Wikipedia affect their well-being, even though their preference of how Wikipedia should be may differ vastly.

When there is a clearly shared-interest (economic or otherwise) among a set of people, the people collectively might be called community. Patients of a serious desease who wish the development of a safer, cheaper, and comfortable treatment, is may be referred as a community in this sense.

In a stricter use of the term, community is a group of people who interact with each other. A virtual community, a group of people exchanging messages or other types of information, is a community in this sense. Here, the members usually share a interest.

People living in a small local area, such as a dormitory, neighborhood, district, town, city, is often called community. This is usually a mixture of shared-interest and actual interaction.

An even narrower definition of community has to do with the nature of interaction. In community, interaction is informal and spontaneous than procedurally formalized (such as in bureaucracy), an end in itself than goal-oriented (such as in interest group or advocacy group). The members form tight-knit web-like strucure of relations than a hierarchical one. It is relatively popular among social theorists (such as Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, Ferdinand Tonnies) to conceptualize community in this way especially in constrast to modernity.

When people describe a group as a community, it typically implies or evokes some sense of harmonious, egalitarian social form sharing their values and lives. The image is most clear in history, thought there are numerous objections that such an idealistic community is hardly a historical reality. A relatively isolated small village in pre-modern society is often called community.

For example, in the United States, services provided by non-profits, corporations, and others to increase welfare of some of the local citizens are often called community services, even when it is offered for a limited segment of them. Here, the service is for the community in a sense it pursues the egalitarian goal and make the local society more like a community.

See also communication, communion, community college, wireless community projects, virtual community, moral community.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Community."

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Coombs, British Columbia

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Coombs is a small community on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, situated on provincial highway 4A approximately ten kilometres west of Parksville. Coombs is home to just over a thousand people.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Coombs, British Columbia."

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Hacker community

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A hacker community is a group of programmers who share code, exchange improvements and teach one another "tricks" or better methods or writing. "Hacking" in this sense does not have anything to do with illegal computer activity; instead it connotes clever and useful solutions to legitimate computer problems. (See: Hacker (Brilliant Programmer))

Probably the most notable hacker community is the community of open source/free software programmers. In this community, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds are two of the most well-known hackers.

People contribute to such a community for various reasons, like making useful contributions where they can, wanting to replace proprietary software with open code, or being a part of a larger group.

The Internet plays a key role in hacker communities; it allows people from around the world to collaborate on a project.

In a sense, Wikipedia can be viewed as a hacker community.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hacker community."

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List of communities in British Columbia

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Communities of the Province of British Columbia, Canada See also: List of other Canadian Cities, Towns & Villages by Province

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of communities in British Columbia."

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Oneida Community

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Oneida Community was a religious community founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 near Oneida, New York. The community followed the beliefs of Noyes including Communism (in the sense of communal property and possessions), 'Complex Marriage', 'Male Continence', 'Mutual Criticism' and 'Ascending Fellowship'. There were initially some forty-five members to the community. The community grew slowly (72 members by February of 1850, 205 by February of 1851, and 306 members by 1878) but had a complex bureaucracy of twenty-one committees and forty-eight administration departments. There were smaller communities in Wallingford, Newark, Putney, Cambridge, and Manlius for a short time.

The community lasted until John Humphrey Noyes attempted to pass on the community to his son, Theodore Noyes. This move was very unsuccessful and divided the community. 'Complex Marriage' was abandoned in 1879 following external pressures and the community soon after broke apart, some of the members reorganizing themselves as a joint-stock company. The joint-stock corporation is still in existence today and is a major producer of silverware under the brand name Oneida Limited.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Oneida Community."

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Scientific community

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A scientific community (or research community) is usually a loosely knit community of scientists and researchers working on the same subject. (For example there is a robotics community within the field of computer science).

Members of the same community do not need to work together, but they will usually be aware of each other's research and publications, and attend the same conferences. Peer reviews of results is also almost always done by members of the same community.

Sometimes the term scientific community is also used to describe the community of all scientists.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scientific community."

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Virtual community

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A virtual community is a group whose members are connected by means of information technologies, typically the Internet. Similar terms include online community and mediated community.

The term "virtual community" is attributed to the book of the same title by Howard Rheingold in 1993. The book discussed a range of computer-mediated communication and social groups. The technologies included Usenet, MUDs (Multi-User Dungeon), IRC (Internet Relay Chat), chat rooms and electronic mailing lists. He pointed out potential benefit of such a group one can belong to via communication technologies for personal psychological well-being as well as for the society at large. (The proliferation of the World Wide Web started after the book was published)

Today, "virtual community" is loosely used and interpreted to indicate a variety of social groups connected in some ways by the Internet. It does not necessarily mean that there is a strong bond among the members. An email distribution list on Star Trek may have close to one hundred members, and the communication which takes place there could be either one-way (the list owner making announcements) or merely informational (questions and answers are posted, but members stay relatively strangers and uninterested to each other). The membership turnover rate could be high. This is in line with the liberal use of the term community.

The idea that media could generate a community is quite old. Progressive thinkers such as Charles Cooley, early in the 20th century in the United States, envisioned a nation whose members are united strongly because of the increased use of mass media. Also well-known is the term community without propinquity, coined by sociologist Melvin Webber in 1963.

The explosive diffusion of the Internet into some of the countries such as the United States was also accompanied by the proliferation of virtual communities. The nature of those communities and communications are rather diverse, and the benefits that Rheingold envisioned are not neccessarily realized, or pursued, by many. At the same time, it is rather commonplace to see anecdotes of someone in need of special help or in search of a community benefitting from the use of the Internet.

Examples of virtual communities include LiveJournal and Wikipedia. Meetup is an online service designed to facilitate real-world meetings of people involved in various virtual communities.

Related terms:

computer-mediated communication

External links:
The Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold (electronic version)
Playdo community by Andreas Rehnberg (live example)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Virtual community."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Community

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
ACP countriesEnglishCountries in Africa,the Carribean and the Pacific which have concluded the Lomé Convention with the European CommunityEconomics, Politics & International Affaires

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Community

Synonyms: community(a) (adj), public (adj), biotic community (n), community of interests (n), profession (n), residential area (n), residential district (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Community

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Good Man

Salt of the earth; one in ten thousand; one in a million; a gentleman and a scholar; pillar of society, pillar of the community, a man among men.

Mankind

People, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million. (commonalty); population. (inhabitant).

Orthodoxy

The Church; Catholic Church, Universal Church, Apostolic Church, Established Church; temple of the Holy Ghost; Church of Christ, body of Christ, members of Christ, disciples of Christ, followers of Christ; Christian, Christian community; true believer; canonist; (theologian); Christendom, collective body of Christians.

Participation

Noun: participation; cotenancy, joint tenancy; occupancy in common, possession in common, tenancy in common; joint stock, common stock; co-partnership, partnership; communion; community of possessions, community of goods; communism, socialism; cooperation.

Party

Community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity; confraternity; familistere, familistery; brotherhood, sisterhood.

Repute

Hero, man of mark, great card, celebrity, worthy, lion, rara avis, notability, somebody; classman; man of rank; (nobleman); pillar of the state, pillar of the church, pillar of the community.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Community

English words defined with "community": community center, community chest, community college, community of interests. (references)
Specialty definitions using "community": American Community Survey, America's Community BankersCommunity Address Updating System, community antenna television, Community Assistance Panel, community centre, COMMUNITY DIETITIAN, community energetics, Community Facilities Program, Community Health Aides, Community Health Centers, Community Health Services, Community Investment Program, Community Medicine, Community Mental Health Centers, Community Mental Health Services, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION WORKER, Community Pharmacy Services, community placement worker, community planning director, community chest, Community Psychiatry, Community Relations, community service consultant, COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFICER, PATROL, COMMUNITY WORKERDesired plant community, DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONEuropean Coal and Steel Community, executive, community planninggated communityHigh-Risk CommunityNational Council of Community Bankers, NURSE, STAFF, COMMUNITY HEALTHPOLICE LIEUTENANT, COMMUNITY RELATIONSRural Community Advancement ProgramSavings & Community Bankers of America. (references)
Etymologies containing "community": Shag-rag. (references)

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Modern Usage: Community

DomainUsage

Screenplays

If he honestly thinks that the environmental community is going to whistle a happy tune while rallying support around this pitifully lame mockery of environmental leadership just because he's a nice guy and he's done better than his predecessors, then your boss is the Chief Executive of Fantasyland (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.)

Nicole, tomorrow Mr. Stephens wants you to make your deposition at the community center (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

This rabble you're talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath (It's a Wonderful Life; writing credit: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett and Frank Capra. based on the story 'The Greatest Gift' by Philip Van Doren Stern.)

Yeah, but we want to hear it, and there's more of us than you. We're a community, like, a majority vote (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen)

Beyond the fact that you are a brilliant Jewish physician who was born in Hungary and studied for a while in Paris, and that certain radical theories of yours have alienated the respectable medical community so that you have severed your connections with various hospitals and branches of the medical fraternity, beyond this I can deduce little (The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Nicholas Meyer)

Clever

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. (references; author: unknown)

A good school is a community where children learn to live first and foremost as children and not as future adults. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Community Action Theater on Tour (1973)

The Prison Community (1965)

Community Pastures (1964)

Rabies in Your Community (1958)

Community Responsibilities (1955)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Community

DomainTitle

References

  • American Community Bancshares, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Citizens Community Bancorp, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Community Bancorp Inc Massachusetts: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • First National Community Bancorp, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • New York Community Bancorp Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization (reference)

  • Strategy for Stable Peace: Toward a Euroatlantic Security Community (reference)

  • The Egba-Ake community of Abeokuta (reference)

  • How Occupational Accidents and Diseases Are Reported in the European Community (Information Booklet Series, No 6) (reference)

  • Caesarius of Arles : The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Introduction to the Deaf Community (reference)

  • John P. Kee & The New Life Community Choir: Strength (reference)

  • Service Learning: Curriculum, Standards and the Community (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Community

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Photo Album: Community

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Demonstration of rodent control practices being provided to community leaders as part of CDC's community involvement and support activities. Credit: CDC.

To control flies after the 1955 flood in Connecticut, workers sprayed an insecticide mixture containing 5% DDT around community trees. Credit: CDC.

Filleting salmon in anticipation of a community fish fry in support of the United Seiners Association. Credit: Fisheries.

Heading and gutting salmon in anticipation of a community fish fry in support of the United Seiners Association. Credit: Fisheries.

A bucket full of quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria. Quahogs feed by filtering plankton from the water, pumping up to a gallon per hour or more, depending on temperature. This feeding activity helps to improve water quality and clarity in Narragansett Bay and is an important ecological link between the Bay's water column and its benthic, or bottom-dwelling community. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A sign to commemorate the project sponsors. One of the attributes of this project was the strong community support. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Cobble beach community at Potter Cove on Prudence Island. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Spot, Leiostomus xanthurus, is one of the most abundant members of the North Inlet fish community. Juvenile spot dominate North Inlet fish collections from February to October. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Starfish and anemones in a cold water rocky community. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Mussels, worms and a spider crab at a hydrocarbon seep community. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Community
 

"Manchester community college" by Jeff Daley
Commentary: "Manchester community college in manchester, connecticut."
"Community garden, East Village" by Geoff Hartman
Commentary: "One of a series of flower shots in a community garden in the East Village in NYC."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Community

AuthorQuotation

Andrew Carnegie

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Aristotle

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Brigham Young

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Dorothy Day

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Judith Plaskow

Human beings are fundamentally communal; our individuality is a product of community, and our choices are shaped by our being with others.

Marcus T. Cicero

A community is like the ones who govern it.

Oscar Wilde

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

St. Augustine

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Community

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

And if we shall not have corrected the transgression (or, in the event of our being out of the realm, if our justiciar shall not have corrected it) within forty days, reckoning from the time it has been intimated to us (or to our justiciar, if we should be out of the realm), the four barons aforesaid shall refer that matter to the rest of the five and twenty barons, and those five and twenty barons shall, together with the community of the whole realm, distrain and distress us in all possible ways, namely, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, and in any other way they can, until redress has been obtained as they deem fit, saving harmless our own person, and the persons of our queen and children; and when redress has been obtained, they shall resume their old relations towards us. (reference)

John Locke

1690

And so accordingly of these the community may make compounded and mixed forms of government, as they think good. (Second Treatise of Government)

Communist Manifesto

1848

But you Communists would introduce community of women, screams the whole bourgeoisie in chorus. (reference)

United Nations

1948

Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. (reference)

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

In each of the cases, minors of the Negro race, through their legal representatives, seek the aid of the courts in obtaining admission to the public schools of their community on a nonsegregated basis. (reference)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1963

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1938)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Community

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Monastic communities are to the great social community what the ivy is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

And they would carry the coffin out of the chapel slowly and he would be buried in the little graveyard of the community off the main avenue of limes

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

We belong to the community.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Community

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

These can take place in the community at large. (references)

Corrigan JD. Community integration following traumatic brain injury. (references)

Take a single class at the local community college or work towards a degree. (references)

Business

The sail boat community is different. (references)

This exhibition draws large crowds from the student community. (references)

In Italy, more than 1,100 Italian cities and towns now offer community interactive sites. (references)

Children

Belgium

Regional and community programs provide other assistance, such as job training. (references)

Angola

Private religious, community, or corporate groups have been unable to fill this vacuum. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Roma children may attend schools in all areas of the country, although attendance is low due to pressure from within their community. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

The Catholic Church operates community radio stations. (references)

Georgia

Some have enlisted the assistance of the NGO community. (references)

Uzbekistan

She received 3 years of community service but later was granted amnesty. (references)

Discrimination

Cyprus

While each community generally respects such laws, significant problems remained concerning the treatment of the Greek Cypriots and Maronites living in the north and, to a lesser extent, with the treatment of Turkish Cypriots living in the government-controlled area. (references)

Ireland

The amended Employment Equality Act outlaws discrimination in relation to employment on the basis of nine distinct discriminatory grounds: Gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religious belief, age, disability, race, and membership in the Traveller community. (references)

Economic History

Marshall Islands

A small Bahai community also exists. (references)

Human Rights

Malawi

Four cities have begun pilot community service programs. (references)

Pakistan

He later was released after the intervention of community elders. (references)

Jamaica

JLP and PNP officials cooperated to ease tensions in the community. (references)

Indigenous People

Namibia

This has been especially true in the Khoe San and Mafwe communities in the Caprivi and in the Herero community. (references)

Indonesia

The consultation's closing statement called for the holding of a congress comprised of the entire Papuan community. (references)

Sri Lanka

Although many Veddas continue to pursue a traditional way of life, visits by tourists have become an important source of income for the community. (references)

Minorities

Malta

This community has a mosque and a separate school. (references)

Lithuania

Pursuant to the program, a community school was established. (references)

Panama

The ethnic Chinese community is estimated to be about 120,000 persons. (references)

Political Economy

Albania

Albania's NGO community is small but growing in influence and expertise. (references)

Albania

The GOA is increasingly interested in the views of the business community. (references)

Malaysia

Malaysia has cultivated an excellent relationship with the U.S. business community. (references)

Political Rights

Uganda

On November 1, four female members were elected to represent the country on the East African Community (EAC) legislative Assembly. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

There are 11 Arabs and 2 Druze in the Knesset; most represent parties that derive their support largely or entirely from the Arab community. (references)

Togo

In 2000 the CENI worked with the Government to develop a budget and then sought funding from the donor community for new legislative elections. (references)

Trade

Ghana

Ghana is a member of ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States. (references)

Guinea

Guinea is also a member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). (references)

Zambia

Zambia also belongs to the 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC). (references)

Travel

Ghana

Villa Koreana, Community 12, Tema. (references)

Kuwait

Crime against the American community is low. (references)

Ghana

Excellent Lebanese and fine Continental cuisine, popular with the business community. (references)

Women

Mali

A community property marriage must be specified in the marriage contract. (references)

Mozambique

The law specifically permits women to exercise rights over community land held through customary rights. (references)

Cyprus

Spousal abuse in the Greek Cypriot community is a problem; and it continued to receive increased attention. (references)

Worker Rights

Cyprus

Antiunion discrimination is not illegal in the Turkish Cypriot community. (references)

China

Some accept their fate and join the new community; others struggle and are punished. (references)

Malawi

The police and the Ministry of Gender, Youth, and Community Services handle any cases that arise. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

TROGLODYTE, n. Specifically, a cave-dweller of the paleolithic period, after the Tree and before the Flat. A famous community of troglodytes dwelt with David in the Cave of Adullam. The colony consisted of "every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented" -- in brief, all the Socialists of Judah.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Community

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Fred Thompson

I don't know, Bob, but I'll tell you this. I am very concerned about our intelligence community. Our counterintelligence capabilities, our counterterrorism capabilities are not what they should be. There needs to be major reform in the CIA and the FBI.

Heather Mills McCartney

Those who survive endure a lifetime of physical, psychological, and economic hardship. And the toll on the community is devastating.

Mark Geragos

Supervised probation means you have a probation officer. The probation officer will tell you to do this or do that or will supervise, in this case, community service.

Prince Albert of Monaco

Yeah, yeah. And this has been incredible for us because it was a recognition by the international community that we were a member of that community. And for a small country, that's very important.

Richard Shelby

We do the oversight, and we have legislation jurisdiction over the committees, but it is not our responsibility to furnish the intelligence to the policymakers. That is the responsibility and obligation of the community.

Ross Perot

Well, it's basically to get everybody to come in and volunteer to help protect their community and to have a plan in case of an emergency of exactly what everybody does.

Rush Limbaugh

Because I think Bush does have his eyes on the policy at the end of the day that will do us the most good, and his base in the conservative Christian community see the same thing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Community

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797In one in which the measures of government receive their impressions so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours it is proportionably essential.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Advances in science, in communication, in transportation, have compressed the world into a community.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963Local mass transit, faring even worse, is as essential a community service as hospitals and highways.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969For a second century we labored to establish a unity of purpose and interest among the many groups which make up the American community.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977My recent discussions with the leaders of the Atlantic community, Japan, and South Korea have contributed to meeting the common challenge.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981We are a community, a beloved community, all of us.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Family and community are the co-stars of this Great American Comeback.

George Bush

1989-1993Let them know that together, we affirmed America, and the world, as a community of conscience.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Now we have to preserve our treasures in every community.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Community

"Community" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 95.93% of the time. "Community" is used about 23,062 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (common)95.93%22,123400
Noun (proper)4.07%9387,718
                    Total100.00%23,062N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Community

CountryNameCountryName
Japan

Shidax Community Corporation

United Kingdom

Community Hospitals Group Plc

USA

American Community Bancshares, Inc.

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Cities: Community


1. Community, VA
Zip Code(s): 22306
Country: USA

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Expressions: Community

Expressions using "community": agricultural community biotic community brazilian community business community Business in Community cargo community system community acquired community agistment area community allotment community antenna television community center community centre community charge community chest community college Community Dentistry community energetics Community Equity Associates Community farm price Community Health Aides Community Health Centers Community Health Nursing Community Health Planning Community Health Services community home community leader community life Community Medicine Community mental health center Community Mental Health Centers Community Mental Health Services Community Networks community of goods community of heirs community of interests community of property community of scholars community ownership Community Pharmacy Services community property Community Psychiatry community radio community service community singing Community typology for agricultural holdings emigrant community European Coal and Steel Community european community European Community Humanitarian Office european economic community financial community fishing community industrial community japanese community legal community medical community mining community Nespelem Community Nisqually Indian Community pillar of the community portuguese community religiuos community sense of community speech community the community Therapeutic Community village community. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "community": community-acquired, Community-Acquired Infections, community-backed, community-based, community-based-services, community-centre, community-centred, community-controlled, community-decision-making, community-devised, community-directed, community-funded, community-health, community-in-education, Community-Institutional, Community-Institutional Relations, community-led, community-level, community-member, community-minded, community-mindedness, community-ministers, community-orientated, community-oriented, community-originated, community-policing, community-related, community-run, community-scale, community-sensitive, community-set, community-smack, Community-us, community-wide.

Ending with "community": cross-community, extra-community, inter-community, non-community, police-community, sub-community.

Containing "community": non-community-charge-paying.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Community

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

college community

5,887

tidewater community college

842

community

3,631

seminole community college

835

houston community college

2,930

macomb community college

762

austin community college

2,356

college community louis st

749

broward community college

2,339

santa fe community college

724

valencia community college

1,579

palm beach community college

722

mesa community college

1,571

nassau community college

716

miami dade community college

1,558

shoreline community college

693

riverside community college

1,477

collin county community college

682

msn community

1,338

front range community college

672

glendale community college

1,323

pima community college

663

northern virginia community college

1,152

coastline community college

632

portland community college

1,093

cuyahoga community college

620

tulsa community college

1,092

scottsdale community college

612

bellevue community college

1,090

columbus state community college

599

tallahassee community college

999

anne arundel community college

584

hillsborough community college

963

webshots community

578

oakland community college

958

salt lake community college

577

retirement community

907

tacoma community college

566

brevard community college

858

manatee community college

561
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Community

Language Translations for "community"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

belangegemeenskap (community of interests). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

union (union), bashkim (affiliation, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, coalescence, compound, confederation, conflux, conjunction, consolidation, coupling, fusion, hookup, integration, interconnection, interflow, interfusion, joinder, joining, joint, junction, league, ligature, linkage, merger, reconcilability, reunion, seam, soldering, splice, unification, union, welding). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏منظمة (brotherhood, collective, organism, organization), ‏ملكية مشتركة, ‏موطن مشترك, ‏مجموعة من الناس جالية, ‏مجموعة من النبات, ‏مجموعة (aggregate, aggregation, assemblage, association, band, battery, bloc, block, body, case, collection, combination, company, compilation, complex, gathering, group, list, pack, party, series, set, squad, suit, system, team, troop), ‏مجتمع (folk, society), ‏وحدة (collective, identity, isolation, loneliness, oneness, singularity, solitude, togetherness, unit, unity), ‏تماثل (homogeneity, identification, identify, identity, like, likeness, oneness, resemble, sameness, self identification, similarity, symmetry, sympathize, uniformity), ‏الجمهور (herd), ‏الجماعة, ‏إتفاق (accord, compact, composition, concert, concord, concordance, deal, oneness, pact, promise, settlement, term, treaty, understanding, unity). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

колония (colony, dependency, plantation, settlement, stock), общност (aggregation, commonalty, communion, fraternity, intercommunity, public), общество (company, life, public, society, sodality, world), община (commune, communion, guildhall, parish, township). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

體團 , 社區 , 公共 (commonality, Commonalty, Communities). (various references)

   

Czech

  

veřejnost (public), spoleènost (association, companionship, company, corporation, incorporation, league, partnership, party, set, society, world), spoleèenství (commonalty, communion, corporation, guild, partnership), spoleèenský celek, soulad (concordance, harmony, union), shoda (accord, accordance, agreement, compliance, concord, conformity, congruence, conjuncture, correspondence, Deuce, harmony, oneness, parity, unanimity, understanding, union, unity), obec (municipality, township, village). (various references)

   

Danish

  

samfundbiocoenose, samfund, personfaellesskab (collectivity), kollektiv (collectivity), biologiske samfund. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gemeenschap (society), gemeente (parish). (various references)

   

Ecuadorian Quechua

  

llacta. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

komunumo. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

عوام (Laity, Popular), انجمن (Assemblage, Assembly, Club, Company, Congress, Convention, Convocation, Council, Group, Guild, Institute, Moot, Order, Society), اجتماع (Assemblage, Assembly, Collection, Commonweal, Crowd, Hurricane, Milieu, Muster, Society, Turnout). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

yhteisö (collectivity), yhdyskunta (assembly, collectivity, colony). (various references)

   

French

  

commune (commune), communauté (commune). (various references)

   

German

  

Gemeinschaft (communion, company, fellowship, group, partnership), Gemeinde (congregation, congregational, corporation, fold, local authority, municipality, parish, parishioners, patrons, township), Gemeinsamkeit (common ground, joint possession, mutuality). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοινότητα (commune, township). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שתוף (analogy, communion, joining, participation, partnership, sharing), קהלה (assembly, congregation, public), קהל (assembly, crowd, gathering, public, throng), קבוץ (gathering, group, Ingathering, kibbutz), קרבה (affinity, closeness, familiarity, kinship, neighbourhood, propinquity, proximity, relation, vicinity), עדה (assembly, congregation, flock, swarm), עם (crowd, folk, mob, nation, people, populace), כלל האוכלוסיה (society), צבור (accumulated, conglomerated, congregation, gathered, heap, pile, piled, public). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

közösség (commune, fellowship, polity). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

massa (mass), komunitas. (various references)

   

Italian

  

comunità (settlement), collettività (collectivity). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

公共  (public), 公共 (communal, public, public service, society), 共通  (commonness), 共通 (commonness), 共同社会 (communal society), コミュニケーション科学基礎研究所 (choral, collaboration, collaborative, collaborator, collage, collagen, collie, column, columnist, COM, COMECON, comedian, comedy, comet, Cominform, comment, commentator, comment-out, committee, common, common carrier, common language, common sense, Commonwealth Day, communicate, Communication Science Laboratories, communications intelligence, communications satellite, communicator, communism, communist, Communist Information Bureau, community care, community center, community college, community media, community paper, community school, community sports, computer output microfilm system, comsat, corrida, corundum, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Komintern, Komsomol, Korea, operator in a telemarketing business, stand-alone feature article framed by a box). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きょうどうしゃかい (communal society), きょうつう (chest pain, commonness), こうきょう (affidavit, Catholicism, communal, deposition, healthy economy, prosperous conditions, public, public service, reverberation, society, the Book of Filial Piety, width, width and narrowness, your instructions or suggestions), コミュニティー , コミュニティ . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

지역 사회 (Communities). (various references)

   

Manx

  

pobble (congregation, folk, masses, people, population). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ommunitycay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

comunidade (commonwealth, family, intercommunity, society). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

comunitate (commune, congregation, intercommunity, membership, throng), colectivitate (body, collectivity, the community), societate (association, circle, club, companionship, company, Covey, crowd, firm, guild, institute, presence, society, world), posesiune în comun, obşte (commune, council, parish, society). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сообщество (fellowship), общность (commonality, generality, intercommunity), общество общественный, общественный (common, communal, public, social), общежитие (dormitory, hostel, social behavior), община (commune, sodality). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zajednica (association, congregation, public, society, unity), zajednički (club: by clubbing together, common, joint, jointly, mutual, mutually, together), opština (borough, township). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

municipio (borough, city council, city hall, municipality, parish, town, township), comunidad (clanship, common, commune, familiar, joinder, league), sociedad (assn, association, company, companyof, corporation, firm, league, partnership, society), colectividad (collective, collectivity). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

samhälle (colony, commonwealth, municipality, society), gemenskap (communion, connection, fellowship, solidarity), gemensamhet. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ประชาคมเศรษฐกิจยุโรป (European Economic Community), ประชาคมยุโรป (European Community). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

cemiyet, cemaat (boodle, caboodle, communion, congregation, crowd, flock, fold, parish, sect, troop), topluluk (army, cohort, colony, company, corps, coterie, crowd, ensemble, gathering, group, herd, hive, knot, party, push, set, society, troop), ortaklık (association, company, coparcenary, copartnership, joint adventure, joint undertaking, joint venture, participation, partnership, privity, tie up), ortak yön, müşterek tasarruf, benzerlik (affinity, analogy, approach, comparison, conformity, congeniality, identity, kinship, likeness, mimicry, parallel, parallelism, parity, propinquity, resemblance, sameness, similar, similarity, similitude), beledíye. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

umumylyk (commoness). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

громада (common, commonalty, sodality), община (commune, phalanx). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

xã hội câu lạc bộ khu vực đồng ca, sự hát tập thể, quận (district, shire, township), phái (coterie, persuasion, side), khu phố, huyện (district, shire), hội (college, gala, institute, society), dân chúng (commonage, demos, multitude, people, populace), dân (soul). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cymuned. (various references)

   

Zulu

  

umasipala. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Community

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

bacchidem, collegium, communionem, communionis, dem, demas, demetrio, demetrium, demum, medi, media, medii, mediis, medio, medium. (various references)

Avestan200-600

airyamanem. (various references)

Old English450-1100

geferscipe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Community

Derivations

Words ending with "community": intercommunity, noncommunity, subcommunity. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Community" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cmmunity, commandite, commisit, commmunity, commnity, commondity, commonish, commuitty, commuity, commumity, communaute, communi, communigy, communikty, communitie, Communityl, communityt, Communiy, communtiy, comuni, comunity, conmunity, cumminity, cummunity, ommunity. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Community"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "community" (pronounced kumyuw"nutē)
7-m y uw" n u t ēimmunity.
6-y uw" n u t ēdisunity, impunity, unity.
5-uw" n u t ēopportunity.
4-n u t ēaffinity, alkalinity, amenity, dignity, divinity, eternity, femininity, fraternity, humanity, indemnity, indignity, infinity, inhumanity, insanity, masculinity, maternity, modernity, obscenity, paternity, profanity, salinity, sanity, serenity, solemnity, Trinity, vanity, vicinity, virginity.
3-u t ēabsurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, ambiguity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, disparity, dissimilarity, diversity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indestructibility, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, materiality, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, sanctity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Community

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-m-m-n-o-t-u-y"

-3 letters: comity, commit, conium, county, cummin, muonic, mutiny, myotic.

-4 letters: commy, count, cumin, cutin, cyton, mincy, minty, mount, mucin, muton, notum, onium, ontic, tommy, tonic, tummy, tunic, uncoy, unity, yomim, yonic.

-5 letters: cion, city, coin, coni, cony, icon, immy, into, mint, mity, momi, mony, muni, muon, omit, otic, tiny, tony, tyin, unci, unco, unit.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-m-m-n-o-t-u-y"
 

+2 letters: communality.

 

+3 letters: incommutably, noncommunity, subcommunity.

 

+4 letters: communicatory, unsymptomatic.

 

+5 letters: immunogenicity, intercommunity.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction
13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Company Usage
17. Cities
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern
21. Translations: Ancient
22. Abbreviations
23. Acronyms
24. Derivations
25. Rhymes
26. Anagrams
27. Bibliography


  

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