EGAVE

community

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 150.92 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
  2. noun A residential or religious collective; a commune.
  3. noun A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
  4. noun A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
  5. noun The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
  6. noun A feeling of togetherness or connectedness, common identity or of possessing a similar outlook, perspective and purpose with some group of people.
    Volunteering gave me a sense of community.
  7. noun Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
    a community of goods
  8. noun Common character; likeness.

Similar words

common local profession public community of interests residential area residential district society communality nation

Often followed by

of and in is to development college as was

Word family

communities

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