community
/k(ə)ˈmju.nə.ti/ noun B2- A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
- A residential or religious collective; a commune.
- A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
- A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
- The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
- A feeling of togetherness or connectedness, common identity or of possessing a similar outlook, perspective and purpose with some group of people. · Volunteering gave me a sense of community.
- 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.
Plural communities
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Sir Charles was a retiring man, but the chance of his illness brought us together, and a community of interests in science kept us so.
“So far as your efforts are directed towards the suppression of crime, sir, they must have the support of every reasonable member of the community, though I cannot doubt that the official machinery is amply sufficient for the purpose.
“The community is certainly the gainer, and no one the loser, save the poor out-of-work specialist, whose occupation has gone.
As I read the evidence at the inquest, which led up to a verdict of willful murder against some person or persons unknown, I realized more clearly than I had ever done the loss which the community had sustained by the death of Sherlock Holmes.
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