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- [kuh-myoo-ni-tee]
- /kəˈmyu nɪ ti/
- /kəˈmjuːnəti/
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- [kuh-myoo-ni-tee]
- /kəˈmyu nɪ ti/
Definitions of community word
- singular noun community The community is all the people who live in a particular area or place. 3
- countable noun community A particular community is a group of people who are similar in some way. 3
- uncountable noun community Community is friendship between different people or groups, and a sense of having something in common. 3
- noun community the people living in one locality 3
- noun community the locality in which they live 3
- noun community (as modifier) 3
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Origin of community
First appearance:
before 1325 One of the 16% oldest English words
1325-75; < Latin commūnitās, equivalent to commūni(s) common + -tās -ty2; replacing Middle English comunete < Middle French < Latin as above
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Parts of speech for Community
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
community popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
community usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for community
noun community
- neighborhood — the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
- center — a point equally distant from all points on the circumference of a circle or surface of a sphere
- district — a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes.
- people — persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think?
- company — A company is a business organization that makes money by selling goods or services.
adjective community
- civic — You use civic to describe people or things that have an official status in a town or city.
- communal — Communal means relating to particular groups in a country or society.
- municipal — of or relating to a town or city or its local government: municipal elections.
- free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
- open — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
Antonyms for community
noun community
- dissimilarity — unlikeness; difference.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- difference — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
- isolation — an act or instance of isolating.
adjective community
- private — privacy
Top questions with community
- what is a community?
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