NOUN | group | community | a group of people living in a particular local area |
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group | community | a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common | |
possession | community | common ownership | |
group | community | a group of nations having common interests | |
state | community, community of interests | agreement as to goals | |
location | community, residential district, residential area | a district where people live | |
group | community, biotic community | (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other |
Sounds | kahmyuw'nahtiy; kahmyuw'nihtiy | |
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Rhymes | ability ... zloty: 638 rhymes with tiy... |
Meaning | A group of people living in a particular local area. | |
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Example | "the team is drawn from all parts of the community" | |
Instances | Achomawi | A community of Native Americans who speak a Hokan language and live in northeastern California |
Akwa'ala | A community of Native Americans who speak a Hokan language and live in Baja California | |
Inca, Inka | The small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s | |
Quechua, Kechua | A community of South American Indians in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Incan Empire | |
Xhosa | A community of Negroid people in southern South Africa | |
Zulu | A community of Negroid people in eastern South Africa | |
Narrower | Aleut | A community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska |
Circassian | A mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia | |
Ummah, Umma, Muslim Ummah, Islamic Ummah, Islam Nation | The Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan | |
convent | A community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together | |
hamlet, crossroads | A community of people smaller than a village | |
horde | A nomadic community | |
house | The members of a religious community living together | |
neighborhood, neighbourhood | People living near one another | |
parish | A local church community | |
speech community | People sharing a given language or dialect | |
village, small town, settlement | A community of people smaller than a town | |
Broader | gathering, assemblage | A group of persons together in one place |
Spanish | comunidad | |
Catalan | comunitat |
Meaning | A group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common. | |
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Broader | people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively |
Meaning | Common ownership. | |
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Example | "they shared a community of possessions" | |
Broader | ownership | The relation of an owner to the thing possessed |
Catalan | comunal | |
Adjectives | communal | for or by a group rather than individuals |
Meaning | A group of nations having common interests. | |
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Example | "they hoped to join the NATO community" | |
Broader | world organization, world organisation, international organization, international organisation, global organization | An international alliance involving many different countries |
Meaning | agreement as to goals. | |
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Example | "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" | |
Synonym | community of interests | |
Broader | agreement, accord | harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters |
Spanish | comunidad de intereses, comunidad |
Meaning | (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other. | |
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Synonym | biotic community | |
Category | ecology, bionomics, environmental science | The branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment / environment |
Narrower | biome | A major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate |
Broader | group, grouping | Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
Catalan | comunitat |
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