community

1. 1.

   a group of people living in a particular local area

   “the team is drawn from all parts of the community”

   Broadergathering

   NarrowerparishconventhouseUmmahspeech communityneighborhoodvillagehamlethordeAchomawi
2. 2.

   a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common

   “he was well known throughout the Catholic community”

   “the news spread rapidly through the medical community”

   “they formed a community of scientists”

   Broaderpeople
3. 3.

   common ownership

   “they shared a community of possessions”

   Broaderownership
4. 4.

   a group of nations having common interests

   “they hoped to join the NATO community”

   Broaderworld organization
5. 5.

   agreement as to goals

   “the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests”

   Synonymscommunity of interests

   Broaderagreement
6. 6.

   a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences

   Synonymsresidential districtresidential area

   Broaderdistrict

   Narrowerplanned communityuptownsuburbexurbiatenement districtwarrenGeorgetownGreenwich Village

   Partshousing developmenthousing estate
7. 7.

   (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other

   Synonymsbiotic community

   Broadergroup

   Narrowerbiome

   ecology

Other forms of community

plural

communities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about community

What does community mean?

community means "a group of people living in a particular local area". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in community?

community has 4 syllables: com-mu-ni-ty. The stress falls on "mu". In IPA it is /kəˈmjunəti/.

What is another word for community?

Close synonyms include community of interests, residential district, residential area, biotic community. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is community a common word?

community is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with community?

1 word rhymes with community. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.