community
//kəˈmjuːnɪ.ti//
Forms
- Plural
- communities
Definitions
1.A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
2.A residential or religious collective; a commune.
3.A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
4.A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
- Purpose doesn’t only come from work. The third way we can create a sense of purpose for everyone is by building community. And when our generation says “everyone”, we mean everyone in the world.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #342
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
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.