community

English Online Dictionary. What means community‎? What does community mean?

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”), from commūnis (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -itās. By surface analysis, commune +‎ -ity. Doublet of communitas.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈmjuː.nɪ.ti/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: kə-myo͞oʹnə-ti, IPA^(key): /k(ə)ˈmju.nə.ti/, [k(ə)ˈmju.nə.ɾi]
• Hyphenation: com‧mun‧i‧ty

Noun

community (countable and uncountable, plural communities)

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.
7. (uncountable, obsolete) Common character; likeness.
8. (uncountable, obsolete) Commonness; frequency.
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.

Alternative forms

• communitie (obsolete)

Antonyms

• anticommunity
• noncommunity

Hyponyms

• subcommunity

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• “community”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• community in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "community" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 75.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “community”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Further reading

• community on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• community (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Community (Wales) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English community.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔˈmjunɪti/
• Hyphenation: com‧mu‧ni‧ty

Noun

community f or m (plural community's)

1. community, particularly a virtual community or a group of people sharing common interests

Synonyms

• gemeenschap