Community

Noun

 * 1) Group of people sharing a common understanding who reveal themselves by using the same language, manners, tradition and law. (see civilization).
 * 2) Commune or residential/religious collective.
 * 3) The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
 * 4)  A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
 * 5) (Virtual) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes. (see virtual_community).

Adjectives for Community
benighted; enlightened; forward; average; model; decent; beautiful; ideal; prideful; ambitious; busiest; enterprising; self-respecting;  progressive; aggressive; sturdy; self-sustaining; comfortable; isolated; much-maligned; antagonistic; sprawling; ecclesiastical; overcrowded; treeless; civilized; closely-knit; urban; country; laboring; alien; polyglot; quiet; residential; pioneer; rural; sacred; tropical; industrial; monastic; conservative; organized; homogeneous; composite; enormous   fortress-like; curious; moral; congenial guileless; self-supporting; hostile; opulent veritable; seafaring; serene; expanding; sober; scattered.

Verbs for Community
acquaint with—; beautify—; burden—; confine to—; dominate—; dwell in—; elevate—; establish—; expel from—; filter into—; forsake—; govern—; offend—; organize into—; pervade—; present to—; represent—; rule—; unite in—; —elects; —fosters; —levies; —shares; —supports.

Related terms
common; commonalty; communal; commune; communism; communist; communication

Derived terms
community service; community spirit

Thesaurus
affiliation, affinity, agape, agreement, alikeness, alliance, amity, analogy, aping, approach, approximation, ashram, assimilation, association, balance, bipartisanship, body, body politic, bonds of harmony, branch, brotherly love, caritas, caste, cement of friendship, charity, church, citizenry, clan, class, closeness, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, coequality, collaboration, collaborativeness, collective farm, collectivism, collectivity, collegiality, collusion, colony, commensalism, commerce, common effort, common enterprise, common man, common ownership, commonwealth, communal effort, communalism, commune, communication, communion, communism, communitarianism, community at large, community of interests, companionship, company, comparability, comparison, compatibility, complicity, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformity, congeniality, congress, consociation, consortship, constituency, conversation, converse, cooperation, cooperative society, cooperativeness, copying, corelation, correlation, correlativism, correlativity, correspondence, cultural community, culture, democracy, denomination, division, duet, duumvirate, dwellers, economic class, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, empathy, endogamous group, equilibrium, equipollence, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, estate, ethnic group, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, extended family, faction, family, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, folk, folks, frictionlessness, general public, gens, gentry, good vibes, good vibrations, group, habitancy, happy family, harmony, identity, imitation, inhabitants, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, inverse proportion, inverse ratio, inverse relationship, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, kibbutz, kinship, kinship group, kolkhoz, like-mindedness, likeness, likening, linguistic community, love, mass action, men, metaphor, mimicking, moiety, morale, mutual assistance, mutualism, mutuality, nation, nationality, nearness, nuclear family, octet, offshoot, oneness, order, organization, parallelism, parity, partnership, party, peace, people, people at large, people in general, persons, persuasion, phratria, phratry, phyle, polity, pooling, pooling of resources, populace, population, profit sharing, proportionality, public, public ownership, pulling together, quartet, quintet, race, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocality, reciprocation, reciprocity, relativity, religious order, resemblance, sameness, schism, school, sect, sectarism, segment, semblance, septet, settlement, sextet, sharecropping, sharing, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, social activity, social class, social intercourse, social relations, socialism, society, solidarity, speech community, state, state ownership, stock, strain, subcaste, symbiosis, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, totem, town meeting, trio, triumvirate, troika, understanding, union, unison, united action, unity, variety, version, whole people, world, you and me

Etymology
From communité: < Classical Latin communitas: < communis:. Cognates include French communauté:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: comunitat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (shètuán)
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Extremaduran:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: コミュニティ
 * Kalenjin: ,
 * Kamba:
 * Kikuyu:


 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya:
 * Maltese: komunità
 * Meru:
 * Polish: społeczność
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, община
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: ملّة
 * Bulgarian:, комуна
 * Catalan: comunitat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (shèqún)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew:


 * Italian:
 * Luhya:
 * Maltese: komunità
 * Polish: wspólnota
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: comunitate
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Swahili:


 * Catalan: comunitat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (shètuán)
 * Czech: spolunáležitost
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: comunitate
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: comunitat
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese: comunidade
 * Romanian: comunitate
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: samhälle, organismsamhälle


 * : ha
 * : communauté
 * : קהילה (qehila)
 * : kelompok, komunitas
 * : samfunn
 * : samfunn


 * : comunitate
 * : cumunità
 * : comunidad
 * : samfund, sammanslutning , samhälle , gemenskap
 * : సమాజం (samaajam)
 * : (chūm chon)