community meaning
EN
[k(ə)ˈmjunəti] [k(ə)ˈmjunəɾi] 
US CA WCommunity
- A community is a social unit of any size that shares common values.
- Since the advent of the Internet, the concept of community has less geographical limitation, as people can now gather virtually in an online community and share common interests regardless of physical location.
- The word "community" is derived from the Old French comuneté which is derived from the Latin communitas (from Latin communis, things held in common), a broad term for fellowship or organized society.
- ^ "community" Oxford Dictionaries. May 2014. Oxford Dictionaries
- NounPLcommunitiesPREcom-SUF-ity
- A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
- A commune, or residential or religious collective.
- The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
- It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.
- (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
- (Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.
- (obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
- (obsolete) common character; likeness.
- (obsolete) commonness; frequency.
- A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.
- THEY NAMED THEIR COMMUNITY of forty-seven homes near Pleasantville, New York, "Usonia" in homage to Frank Lloyd Wright, whose ideas on the way Americans should live together guided their plan.
- "In this case, I don't remember Shaw saying, 'I'm downzoning for this or that reason.' He would say, 'I'm changing the zoning because the community wants it changed.'"
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- However, it may be possible, via a warrant canary or a similar technique, for a CA to communicate the existence of a secret court order to the Internet community.
- We organize this Thanksgiving dinner at the old-age home to give back to the community.
- Local businesses are more likely to respend their profits in the community.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of community in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "community" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.