communities
- 1Plural of community.
Coastal communities are increasingly threatened by rising sea levels.
The charity works with immigrant communities across the city.
Note
The plural belongs only to the countable meanings: groups sharing a language or faith, residential or religious collectives, organisms living together in one region, and people gathered online. The sense of shared attitudes, as in a strong feeling of community, has no plural. The spelling follows the usual rule for a consonant plus y, which turns the y into ies, as in cities and abilities.
Plant communities on the slope shift as the climate warms.
Online communities often form around a single game or hobby.
communities is a form of community
community, noun: A group of people bound together by something they share, such as background, religion, work or interests, including groups that gather and interact online. Full entry
- Forms
- communitycommunities plural
- Spelling
- community → communities: change y to i, add -es
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