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community

n. C / U
A2 Elementary Oxford US //kəmˈjunəti// UK //kəmjˈuːnɪtˌi// com·mu·ni·ty Academic Archaic General-service

n. a group of people who live in the same area or share the same interests. You can also use it to describe plants and animals living together in one place.

n. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common; in ecology, a group of interdependent organisms of different species growing or living together in a specified habitat.


SIMPLE

The local community built a new park for the children.

CONTEXTUAL

Online gaming allows people from all over the world to form a tight-knit community based on shared interests.

COMPLEX

The restoration of the wetlands has allowed a diverse community of migratory birds and native plants to thrive once again in the protected estuary.

Origin

From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”), from commūn(is) (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -itās. By surface analysis, commun(e) + -ity. Doublet of communitas.

Usage

Often functions as a collective noun; can take a singular or plural verb depending on whether the group is seen as a unit or as individuals.

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