community

1. (satellite adjective) affecting the people or community as a whole; "community leaders"; "community interests"; "the public welfare"
Synonyms: public

2. (satellite adjective) belonging to and maintained by and for the local community; "community parks"

3. (noun) a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"
Related Words: assemblage, crossroads, gathering, hamlet, horde, neighborhood, neighbourhood, parish, settlement, small town, speech community, village

4. (noun) a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common; "the Christian community of the apostolic age"; "he was well known throughout the Catholic community"
Related Words: convent, house, people

5. (noun) a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community"
Related Words: international organization, world organization

6. (noun) common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions"
Related Words: ownership

7. (noun) agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"
Synonyms: community of interests
Related Words: accord, agreement

8. (noun) the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical community"
Synonyms: profession
Related Words: bar, business community, businessmen, community of scholars, economics profession, health profession, legal community, legal profession, occupation, occupational group, priesthood, vocation

9. (noun) a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
Synonyms: residential area, residential district
Related Words: Georgetown, Greenwich Village, Village, district, exurbia, ghetto, rabbit warren, suburb, suburban area, suburbia, tenement district, territory, uptown, warren



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