# community

Pronunciation: US say "kuh-MYOO-nuh-tee" /k(ə)ˈmju.nə.ti/; UK/AUS say "kuh-MYOO-ni-tee" /kəˈmjuː.nɪ.ti/

## Noun

1. A group of people bound together by something they share, such as background, religion, work or interests, including groups that gather and interact online.
   - Simple: A group of people who share something, like a religion, a job or an interest, including groups that meet online.
   - _The region's Kurdish community preserves its language through weekend schools._
   - _Religious communities often maintain traditions that date back centuries._
2. All the residents of a particular place, for example a village, a town or a city neighborhood, regarded together as one body.
   - Simple: The people who live in the same place, like a town or part of a city, seen as one group.
   - _The plant's closure hit the local community hard, since nearly every family had someone working there._
   - _Residents packed the school gym as the community debated plans for a highway through town._
3. Fellowship with others that comes from sharing attitudes and interests.
   - Simple: The feeling of sharing the same interests and attitudes with other people.
   - _The shared rituals fostered a deep sense of community among the newcomers._
   - _Online forums can create genuine community even between strangers._
5. In ecology, the populations of different organisms that share an area and interact with and depend on one another.
   - Simple: All the different living things that share one area and depend on each other.
   - _Ecologists surveyed the forest community to track changes in species diversity._
   - _Removing a top predator can reshape entire communities._
4. A residential or religious collective whose members live together; a commune.
   - Simple: A group of people who live together and share their homes, work, or beliefs.
   - _The monastic community rises before dawn for prayer._
   - _In the 1960s many young people founded rural communities based on shared labor._

## Noun

6. Shared enjoyment or possession of something; participation in it together. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The sharing of something so that people enjoy or own it together.
7. Common character; the quality of likeness between persons or things. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The state of being alike or sharing the same nature.
8. Commonness; the quality of being frequent or widespread. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The state of being common or happening very often.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A local area forming the lowest tier of local government, usually run by a community or town council and broadly equivalent to a civil parish in England.

## Origin

This comes from Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité (modern French communauté), from Latin commūnitās ("community; public spirit"), which was built from commūnis ("common, ordinary; public") plus the suffix -itās.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/community (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).