community
pronunciation
How to pronounce community in British English:
UK [kəˈmjuːnəti]
How to pronounce community in American English:
US [kəˈmjuːnəti]
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- Noun:
- a group of people living in a particular local area
- a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common
- common ownership
- a group of nations having common interests
- the body of people in a learned occupation
- agreement as to goals
- a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
- (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
Word Origin
- community (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French comunité "community, commonness, everybody" (Modern French communauté), from Latin communitatem (nominative communitas) "community, society, fellowship, friendly intercourse; courtesy, condescension, affability," from communis "common, public, general, shared by all or many," (see common (adj.)). Latin communitatem "was merely a noun of quality ... meaning 'fellowship, community of relations or feelings,' but in med.L. it was, like universitas, used concretely in the sense of 'a body of fellows or fellow-townsmen' " [OED]. An Old English word for "community" was gemænscipe "community, fellowship, union, common ownership," from mæne "common, public, general," probably composed from the same PIE roots as communis. Community service as a criminal sentence is recorded from 1972, American English. Community college is recorded from 1959.
Example
- 1. Do golf tournaments benefit the community ?
- 2. The gay community was outraged by this police harassment .
- 3. There are several different groups within the travelling community .
- 4. A cohesive transatlantic community must be rebuilt on three pillars .
- 5. Community organizers are supposed to speak truth to power .