community

Noun
  1. A group of people living in a particular local area (synset 108240723)
    "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"
    is a type of: assemblage, gathering - a group of persons together in one place
    subtypes:
    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
  2. A group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common (synset 107961512)
    "he was well known throughout the Catholic community"; "the news spread rapidly through the medical community"; "they formed a community of scientists"
    is a type of: people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
  3. Common ownership (synset 113261737)
    "they shared a community of possessions"
    is a type of: ownership - the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others
  4. A group of nations having common interests (synset 108241195)
    "they hoped to join the NATO community"
    is a type of: global organization, international organisation, international organization, world organisation, world organization - an international alliance involving many different countries
  5. Agreement as to goals (synset 113994829)
    "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"
    is a type of: accord, agreement - harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
    same as: community of interests
  6. A district where people live;
    Occupied primarily by private residences (synset 108571072)
    is a type of: district, dominion, territorial dominion, territory - a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
    subtypes:
    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
  7. (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other (synset 107957969)
    referred to in: bionomics, ecology, environmental science - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
    is a type of: group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
    subtypes: biome - a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate
    same as: biotic community

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