English
community
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]
Noun

community

  1. (countable) A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
  2. (countable) A residential or religious collective; a commune.
  3. (countable, ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
  4. (countable, Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
  5. (uncountable) The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
  6. (countable, obsolete) Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
    a community of goods
  7. (uncountable, obsolete) Common character; likeness.
  8. (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.
  9. (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.
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