community
Etymology
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Etymology
From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās, from commūnis ("common, ordinary; of or for the community, public") + -itās.
Pronunciation- (RP) IPA: /kəˈmjuː.nɪ.ti/
- (America, Canada) enPR: kə-myo͞oʹnə-ti, IPA: /k(ə)ˈmju.nə.ti/, [k(ə)ˈmju.nə.ɾi]
community
- (countable) A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
- (countable) A residential or religious collective; a commune.
- (countable, ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
- (countable, Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
- (uncountable) The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
- (countable, obsolete) Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
- a community of goods
- (uncountable, obsolete) Common character; likeness.
- (uncountable, obsolete) Commonness; frequency.
- c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii] ↗:
- So when he had occaſion to be ſeene, / He was but as the Cuckoe is in Iune, / Heard, not regarded: Seene, but with ſuch eie / As ſicke and blunted with communitie, / Affoord no extraordinary gaze.
- (Wales, countable) A local area within a county or county borough which is the lowest tier of local government, usually represented by a community council or town council, which is generally equivalent to a civil parish in England.
- French: communauté
- German: Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft, Community (internet)
- Italian: comunità
- Portuguese: comunidade
- Russian: соо́бщество
- Spanish: comunidad
- German: Gemeinde
- Italian: comunità
- Portuguese: comunidade
- Russian: соо́бщество
- Spanish: comuna
- Italian: comunità
- Portuguese: comunidade
- Russian: коло́ния
- German: Gemeinschaft
- Italian: comunanza
- Portuguese: comunidade
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