community
Noun
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is a type of: assemblage, gathering - a group of persons together in one placesubtypes:
- parish - a local church community
- convent - a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
- house - the members of a religious community living together
- islam nation, islamic ummah, muslim ummah, umma, ummah - the Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan
- speech community - people sharing a given language or dialect
- neighborhood, neighbourhood - people living near one another
- settlement, small town, village - a community of people smaller than a town
- crossroads, hamlet - a community of people smaller than a village
- horde - a nomadic community
- aleut - a community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska
- circassian - a mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia
specific instances:- achomawi - a community of Native Americans who speak a Hokan language and live in northeastern California
- akwa'ala - a community of Native Americans who speak a Hokan language and live in Baja California
- inca, inka - the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s
- kechua, quechua - a community of South American Indians in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Incan Empire
- xhosa - a community of Negroid people in southern South Africa
- zulu - a community of Negroid people in eastern South Africa
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is a type of: people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
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is a type of: ownership - the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others
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is a type of: global organization, international organisation, international organization, world organisation, world organization - an international alliance involving many different countries
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same as: community of interests
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is a type of: district, dominion, territorial dominion, territory - a region marked off for administrative or other purposessubtypes:
- planned community - a residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents
- uptown - a residential part of town away from the central commercial district
- suburb, suburban area, suburbia - a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
- exurbia - a residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia
- tenement district - a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses
- rabbit warren, warren - an overcrowded residential area
specific instances:- georgetown - a section of northwestern Washington, D.C.
- greenwich village, village - a mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century
has:- housing development - a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management
- housing estate - a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time
same as: residential area, residential district -
referred to in: bionomics, ecology, environmental science - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environmentsubtypes: biome - a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climatesame as: biotic community
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