[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

community \commu"nity\, n.; pl. communities. l. communitas:
   cf. of. communit'e. cf. commonalty, and see common.
   1. common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a
      community of goods.
      1913 webster

            the original community of all things. --locke.
      1913 webster

            an unreserved community of thought and feeling. --w.
                                                  irving.
      1913 webster

   2. a body of people having common rights, privileges, or
      interests, or living in the same place under the same laws
      and regulations; as, a community of monks. hence a number
      of animals living in a common home or with some apparent
      association of interests.
      1913 webster

            creatures that in communities exist.  --wordsworth.
      1913 webster

   3. society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic;
      the public, or people in general.
      1913 webster

            burdens upon the poorer classes of the community.
                                                  --hallam.
      1913 webster

   note: in this sense, the term should be used with the
         definite article; as, the interests of the community.
         1913 webster

   4. common character; likeness. r.
      1913 webster

            the essential community of nature between organic
            growth and inorganic growth.          --h. spencer.
      1913 webster

   5. commonness; frequency. obs.
      1913 webster

            eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
communities commonalty common 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

community
     n 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" syn: profession
     6: agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers
        found they had a community of interests" syn: community
        of interests
     7: a district where people live; occupied primarily by private
        residences syn: residential district, residential area
     8: ecology a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the
        same region and interacting with each other syn: biotic
        community
see also:
profession community of interests residential district residential area biotic community 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

261 moby thesaurus words for "community":
   everyman, john doe, public, accord, accordance, affiliation,
   affinity, agape, agreement, alikeness, alliance, amity, analogy,
   aping, approach, approximation, ashram, assimilation, association,
   balance, bipartisanship, body, body politic, bonds of harmony,
   branch, brotherly love, caritas, caste, cement of friendship,
   charity, church, citizenry, clan, class, closeness, coaction,
   coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship,
   codirectorship, coequality, collaboration, collaborativeness,
   collective farm, collectivism, collectivity, collegiality,
   collusion, colony, commensalism, commerce, common effort,
   common enterprise, common man, common ownership, commonwealth,
   communal effort, communalism, commune, communication, communion,
   communism, communitarianism, community at large,
   community of interests, companionship, company, comparability,
   comparison, compatibility, complicity, concert, concord,
   concordance, concurrence, conformity, congeniality, congress,
   consociation, consortship, constituency, conversation, converse,
   cooperation, cooperative society, cooperativeness, copying,
   corelation, correlation, correlativism, correlativity,
   correspondence, cultural community, culture, democracy,
   denomination, division, duet, duumvirate, dwellers, economic class,
   ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, empathy, endogamous group,
   equilibrium, equipollence, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps,
   estate, ethnic group, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman,
   extended family, faction, family, feeling of identity,
   fellow feeling, fellowship, folk, folks, frictionlessness,
   general public, gens, gentry, good vibes, good vibrations, group,
   habitancy, happy family, harmony, identity, imitation, inhabitants,
   intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse,
   inverse proportion, inverse ratio, inverse relationship,
   joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, kibbutz, kinship,
   kinship group, kolkhoz, like-mindedness, likeness, likening,
   linguistic community, love, mass action, men, metaphor, mimicking,
   moiety, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, nation,
   nationality, nearness, nuclear family, octet, offshoot, oneness,
   order, organization, parallelism, parity, partnership, party,
   peace, people, people at large, people in general, persons,
   persuasion, phratria, phratry, phyle, polity, pooling,
   pooling of resources, populace, population, profit sharing,
   proportionality, public, public ownership, pulling together,
   quartet, quintet, race, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocality,
   reciprocation, reciprocity, relativity, religious order,
   resemblance, sameness, schism, school, sect, sectarism, segment,
   semblance, septet, settlement, sextet, sharecropping, sharing,
   similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, social activity,
   social class, social intercourse, social relations, socialism,
   society, solidarity, speech community, state, state ownership,
   stock, strain, subcaste, symbiosis, symmetry, sympathy, symphony,
   synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, totem, town meeting,
   trio, triumvirate, troika, understanding, union, unison,
   united action, unity, variety, version, whole people, world,
   you and me

[4] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

community. this word has several meanings; when used in common parlance it 
signifies the body of the people. 
     2. in the civil law, by community is understood corporations, or bodies 
politic. dig. 3, 4. 
     3. in the french law, which has been adopted in this respect in 
louisiana, civ. code, art. 2371, community is a species of partnership, 
which a man and woman contract when they are lawfully married to each other. 
it consists of the profits of all, the effects of which the husband has the 
administration and enjoyment, either of right or in fact; of the produce of 
the reciprocal industry and labor of both husband and wife, and of the 
estates which they may acquire during the marriage, either by donations made 
jointly to them, or by purchase, or in any other similar way, even although 
the purchase he made in the name of one of the two, and not of both; because 
in that case the period of time when the purchase is made is alone attended 
to, and not the person who made the purchase. 10 l. r. 146; id. 172, 181; 1 
n. s. 325; 4 n. s. 212. the debts contracted during the marriage enter into 
the community, and must be acquitted out of the common fund; but not the 
debts contracted before the marriage. 
     4. the community is either, first, conventional, or that which is 
formed by an express agreement in the contract of marriage itself; by this 
contract the legal community may be modified, as to the proportions which 
each shall take, or as to the things which shall compose it; civ. code of l. 
art. 2393; second, legal, which takes place when the parties make no 
agreement on this subject in the contract of marriage; when it is regulated 
by the law of the domicil they had at the time of marriage. 
     5. the effects which compose the community of gains, are divided into 
two equal portions between the heirs, at the dissolution of the marriage. 
civ. code of l. art. 2375. see poth. h.t.; toull. h.t.; civ. code of lo. 
tit. 6, c. 2, s. 4. 
     6. in another sense, community is the right which all men have, 
according to the laws of nature, to use all things. wolff, inst. sec. 186. 

[5] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

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