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.

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)

Domain	Definition
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.

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.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
ACP countries	English	Countries in Africa,the Carribean and the Pacific which have concluded the Lomé Convention with the European Community	Economics, Politics & International Affaires
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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)

Context	Synonyms 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.

Domain	Usage
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.

Domain	Title
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	Annual Report Of The Community Relations Service (reference) Bulverde Community News (reference) Choctaw Community News (reference) Community Advisor (reference) Community Bulletin (reference) (more periodical examples)

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	Community Service (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Ulead Web Chameleon 1.2 Personal Community Edition (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	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.

Author	Quotation
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.

Author	Date	Quotation
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.

Title	Author	Quote
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.

Subject	Topic	Quote
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.

Speaker	Phrase(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.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	In 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	1945-1953	Advances in science, in communication, in transportation, have compressed the world into a community.
Dwight Eisenhower	1953-1961	Down 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	1961-1963	Local mass transit, faring even worse, is as essential a community service as hospitals and highways.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	For 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	1974-1977	My recent discussions with the leaders of the Atlantic community, Japan, and South Korea have contributed to meeting the common challenge.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	We are a community, a beloved community, all of us.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Family and community are the co-stars of this Great American Comeback.
George Bush	1989-1993	Let them know that together, we affirmed America, and the world, as a community of conscience.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Now we have to preserve our treasures in every community.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (common)	95.93%	22,123	400
Noun (proper)	4.07%	938	7,718
Total	100.00%	23,062	N/A

Country	Name	Country	Name
Japan	Shidax Community Corporation	United Kingdom	Community Hospitals Group Plc
USA	American Community Bancshares, Inc.
	(more examples...)

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency 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

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	bacchidem, collegium, communionem, communionis, dem, demas, demetrio, demetrium, demum, medi, media, medii, mediis, medio, medium. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	airyamanem. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	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 Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "community" (pronounced kumyuw"nutē)
7	-m y uw" n u t ē	immunity.
6	-y uw" n u t ē	disunity, impunity, unity.
5	-uw" n u t ē	opportunity.
4	-n u t ē	affinity, 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 ē	absurdity, 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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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"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.

Community

Definition: Community

Community

Adjective

Noun

Specialty Definition: Community

Specialty Definition: Community

Coombs, British Columbia

Hacker community

List of communities in British Columbia

Oneida Community

Scientific community

Virtual community

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Community

Synonyms: Community

Synonyms within Context: Community

Good Man

Mankind

Orthodoxy

Participation

Party

Repute

Crosswords: Community

Modern Usage: Community

Screenplays

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Community

References

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

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Photos:Community

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Photo Album: Community

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Familiar Quotations: Community

Andrew Carnegie

Aristotle

Brigham Young

Dorothy Day

Judith Plaskow

Marcus T. Cicero

Oscar Wilde

St. Augustine

St. Thomas Aquinas

Historic Usage: Community

Magna Carta

John Locke

Communist Manifesto

United Nations

Brown v. Board of Education

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Use in Literature: Community

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Community

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Community

Fred Thompson

Heather Mills McCartney

Mark Geragos

Prince Albert of Monaco

Richard Shelby

Ross Perot

Rush Limbaugh

Speeches: Community

George Washington

Harry S. Truman

Dwight Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy

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