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com·mu·ni·ty

(kə-myo͞o′nĭ-tē)

n. pl. com·mu·ni·ties

a. A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government.

b. The district or locality in which such a group lives.

a. A group of people having common interests: the scientific community; the international business community.

b. A group viewed as forming a distinct segment of society: the gay community; the community of color.

a. Similarity or identity: a community of interests.

b. Sharing, participation, and fellowship: a sense of community.

4. Society as a whole; the public.

a. A group of organisms interacting with one another and with the environment in a specific region.

b. The region occupied by a group of interacting organisms.

[Middle English communite, citizenry, from Old French, from Latin commūnitās, fellowship, from commūnis, common; see common.]

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community

(kəˈmjuːnɪtɪ)

n, pl -ties

1. (Human Geography)

a. the people living in one locality

b. the locality in which they live

c. (as modifier): community spirit.

2. (Sociology) a group of people having cultural, religious, ethnic, or other characteristics in common: the Protestant community.

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a group of nations having certain interests in common

4. the public in general; society

5. common ownership or participation

6. similarity or agreement: community of interests.

7. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Wales since 1974 and Scotland since 1975) the smallest unit of local government; a subdivision of a district

8. (Environmental Science) ecology a group of interdependent plants and animals inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other through food and other relationships

[C14: from Latin commūnitās, from commūnis common]

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com•mu•ni•ty

(kəˈmyu nɪ ti)

n., pl. -ties.

1. a group of people who reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.

2. a locality inhabited by such a group.

3. a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests: the business community.

4. the public; society.

5. a group of associated nations sharing common interests or heritage: the Western European community.

6. an assemblage of interacting plant and animal populations occupying a given area.

7. joint possession, enjoyment, liability, etc.: community of property.

8. similar character; agreement: community of interests.

[1325–75; comunete < Middle French < Latin commūnitās <commūni(s) common]

com·mu·ni·ty

(kə-myo͞o′nĭ-tē)

A group of plants and animals living and interacting with one another in a particular place. A community can be small and local, as in a pond or city park, or it can be regional or global, as in a rain forest or the ocean.

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community

- It can refer to group of animals or plants living together and was first used to refer to a "body of commons" or a social or political entity.

Community

a body of people living in the same locality or having a common language or interest. See also cluster, combination.

Examples: community of feeling, 1823; of flies; of good, 1645; of interests, 1875; of power, 1561; of studies, 1841; of ulcers, 1541; of wives, 1564.

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Noun	1.	community - a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community" assemblage, gathering - a group of persons together in one place 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; "moderate Muslims urge the Ummah to reject the terrorism of radical Muslims" speech community - people sharing a given language or dialect neighborhood, neighbourhood - people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" small town, village, settlement - 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; "the Aleut and the Eskimo are related culturally and linguistically" Circassian - a mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia
	2.	community - common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions" ownership - the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others
	3.	community - a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community" global organization, international organisation, international organization, world organisation, world organization - an international alliance involving many different countries
	4.	community - agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" community of interests accord, agreement - harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in agreement"
	5.	community - a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences residential area, residential district housing development - a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management; "they live in the new housing development" housing estate - a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time district, territorial dominion, territory, dominion - a region marked off for administrative or other purposes 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
	6.	community - (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other biotic community group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit bionomics, environmental science, ecology - the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment biome - a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate

community

noun

1. society, people, public, association, population, residents, commonwealth, general public, populace, body politic, state, company He's well liked by the local community.

2. district, area, quarter, region, sector, parish, neighbourhood, vicinity, locality, locality, locale, neck of the woods (informal) a black township on the outskirts of the mining community

3. group, set, camp, circle, crowd, category Other organisations come to the festival to show their solidarity for the lesbian and gay community.

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community

noun

Persons as an organized body:

people, public, society.

Translations

المُجْتَمَعطائِفَهمُجْتَمَعملّة

komunitaobecspolečenstvíveřejnostveřejný

lokalsamfundsamfund

Gemeinschaft Gemeinde Gemeinwesen Gesellschaft

κοινότητα κοινοτικός

comunidad colectividad

yhteisöyhteisöllisyyskommuuniyhdyskunta

communauté commune

zajednica

almenningursamfélag

comunità collettivit...comunit...comunit... europea comunit... religiosa

地域社会

공동체

communitas

bendrijabendruomenėvisuomenė

kopienamikrorajonssabiedrībasabiedriskais-

gemeenschap

samfunn folkegruppe

społeczność wspólnota

comunidade

comunitate

сообщество общежитие общество община

skupnostkomuna

samhälle

ชุมชน

cemaat halk topluluk toplum

cộng đồng

社区社团公众

community

[kəˈmjuːnɪtɪ]

A. N

1. (= people at large) → comunidad f, sociedad f; (= people locally) → comunidad f
the local community → el vecindario

2. (cultural etc) → comunidad f, colectividad f
the black community → la población negra
the artistic community → el mundillo artístico
the English community in Rome → la colectividad or colonia inglesa de Roma

3. the Community (= EEC) → la Comunidad

B. CPD community care N (Brit) → política f de integración social de enfermos y ancianos
community centre N → centro m social
community charge N (Brit) (Admin) (formerly) → (contribución f de) capitación f
community chest N (US) → fondo m para beneficencia social
community college N (US) establecimiento docente de educación terciaria donde se realizan cursos de dos años
community health centre N → centro m médico comunitario
Community law N → derecho m comunitario
community life N → vida f comunitaria
community policing N política policial de acercamiento a la comunidad
Community policy N (EC) → política f comunitaria
community politics N → política f local
Community regulations NPL → normas fpl comunitarias
community service N → trabajo m comunitario (prestado en lugar de cumplir una pena de prisión)
community singing N → canto m colectivo
community spirit N → sentimiento m de comunidad, civismo m
community worker N → asistente mf social

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

community

[kəˈmjuːnɪti] n

(people living in a particular area) → communauté f
the local community → la communauté locale

(group of people with something in common) → communauté f
the Jewish community → la communauté juive
the scientific community → la communauté scientifique
the business community → le monde des affaires

(= the public) the community → la communauté
for the good of the community → pour le bien de la communauté, pour le bien communcommunity action n → action f localecommunity care n (British) (= home care) → service m d'aide à domicile community care programmecommunity care programme n programme visant à déléguer la responsabilité de l'État aux collectivités locales en matière d'aide socialecommunity centre n → foyer m socio-éducatif, centre m socioculturelcommunity college (US) n → centre m universitaire (de premier cycle)community health centre n → centre m médicosocialcommunity leader n → représentant(e) m/f d'une communautécommunity policeman n → îlotier mcommunity policing n → îlotage mcommunity service n → travaux mpl d'intérêt général, TIG mplcommunity spirit n → solidarité fcommunity worker n → animateur/trice m/f socioculturel(le)commutation ticket [ˌkɒmjʊˈteɪʃən] n (US) → carte f d'abonnement

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

community

(= social, cultural etc group) → Gemeinschaft f; (ethnic also) → Bevölkerungsgruppe f; the community at large → das ganze Volk; the great community of nations → die große Völkergemeinschaft; a sense of community → (ein) Gemeinschaftsgefühl nt; to work in the community → im Sozialbereich tätig sein

(= the public) → Allgemeinheit f

(Eccl, of monks, nuns) → (Ordens)gemeinschaft f

(= holding in common) the community of love → die Liebesgemeinschaft; they have no community of interests → sie haben keine gemeinsamen Interessen

community

community association

n (Brit) → Bürgerverein m

community care

n (Brit Sociol)

(= home care) → häusliche Pflege

(also community care programme) → kommunales Fürsorgeprogramm

community centre, (US) community center

n → Gemeindezentrum nt

community charge

n (Brit dated) Kopfsteuer zur Finanzierung der Stadt- und Gemeindeverwaltungen

community chest

n (US) → Wohltätigkeits- or Hilfsfonds m

community college

n (US) College zur Berufsausbildung und Vorbereitung auf ein Hochschulstudium

community home

n → Fürsorgeanstalt f

community relations

pl → das Verhältnis zwischen den Bevölkerungsgruppen

community service

n (Jur) → Sozialdienst m

community singing

n → gemeinsames Singen

community spirit

n → Gemeinschaftssinn m

community worker

n → Sozialberufler(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

community

[kəˈmjuːnɪtɪ] n (gen) → comunità f inv; (of goods, interests) → comunanza
the Italian community in Glasgow → la comunità italiana a Glasgow
the student community → gli studenti

community

(kəˈmjuːnəti) – plural comˈmunities – noun

1. a group of people especially having the same religion or nationality and living in the same general area. the West Indian community in London.

2. the public in general. He did it for the good of the community; (also adjective) a community worker, a community centre.

community

→ مُجْتَمَع komunita lokalsamfund Gemeinschaft κοινότητα comunidad yhteisö communauté zajednica comunità 地域社会 공동체 gemeenschap samfunn społeczność comunidade общество samhälle ชุมชน topluluk cộng đồng 社区

com·mu·ni·ty

n. comunidad, sociedad, barrio;

___ health center → centro de servicio de la salud;

___ medicine → medicina comunitaria.

community

adj comunitario; — involvement participación comunitaria; n (pl -ties) comunidad f; community-acquired adquirido en la comunidad

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As this leaves open to the States far the greatest part of the resources of the community, there can be no color for the assertion that they would not possess means as abundant as could be desired for the supply of their own wants, independent of all external control.

But would it be wise, or would it not rather be the extreme of folly, to stop at this point, and to leave the government intrusted with the care of the national defense in a state of absolute incapacity to provide for the protection of the community against future invasions of the public peace, by foreign war or domestic convulsions?

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A PUGILIST met the Moral Sentiment of the Community, who was carrying a hat-box.

"Put down pugilism - if I have to wear it night and day," said the Moral Sentiment of the Community, sternly.

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Yes, he said; but what is right in this particular case, like everything else, requires to be explained; for community may be of many kinds.

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But let us suppose that this latter circumstance determined, as it probably often does determine, the numbers of a humble-bee which could exist in a country; and let us further suppose that the community lived throughout the winter, and consequently required a store of honey: there can in this case be no doubt that it would be an advantage to our humble-bee, if a slight modification of her instinct led her to make her waxen cells near together, so as to intersect a little; for a wall in common even to two adjoining cells, would save some little wax.

How the workers have been rendered sterile is a difficulty; but not much greater than that of any other striking modification of structure; for it can be shown that some insects and other articulate animals in a state of nature occasionally become sterile; and if such insects had been social, and it had been profitable to the community that a number should have been annually born capable of work, but incapable of procreation, I can see no very great difficulty in this being effected by natural selection.

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After a breakfast, which was an exact replica of the meal of the preceding day and an index of practically every meal which followed while I was with the green men of Mars, Sola escorted me to the plaza, where I found the entire community engaged in watching or helping at the harnessing of huge mastodonian animals to great three-wheeled chariots.

Entirely unknown to their mothers, who, in turn, would have difficulty in pointing out the fathers with any degree of accuracy, they are the common children of the community, and their education devolves upon the females who chance to capture them as they leave the incubator.

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They discovered that we were supplying a real want in the community. The making of these bricks caused many of the white residents of the neighbourhood to begin to feel that the education of the Negro was not making him worthless, but that in educating our students we were adding something to the wealth and comfort of the community.

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It is curious to observe, that in every state of society, some sort of ghostly consolation is provided for the members of the community, though assembled for purposes diametrically opposite to religion.

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To have nothing in common is evidently impossible, for society itself is one species of [1261a] community; and the first thing necessary thereunto is a common place of habitation, namely the city, which must be one, and this every citizen must have a share in.

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