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Community

noun

(pl. communities)

A group of people living in a particular local area.

Common ownership.

A group of nations having common interests.

Agreement as to goals. Synonym: community of interests.

A district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences. Synonyms: residential area, residential district.

(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other. Synonym: biotic community.

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"Community" Quotes from Famous Books

... to hosiery, has it come within your own knowledge that knitters are paid in goods to an extent that is unwholesome for themselves and for the community?-Yes, ...

— Second Shetland Truck System Report • William Guthrie

... the door the parrot ruffed up his feathers and said 'Dammit, set em up,' and I hurried out with the cage for fear he would say something bad, and the folks all held up their hands and said it was scandalous. Say, I wonder if a parrot can go to hell with the rest of the community. Well, I put the parrot in the woodshed, and after they all had their innings, except Pa, who acted as umpire, the meeting broke up, and Ma says its the last time she will have that gang at ...

— Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa - 1883 • George W. Peck

... must first get a man, neglected this really good advice. He lost his interest in the business, and dismissed with lack-lustre indifference the horses which continued to be brought to his gate. He felt that his position before the community was becoming notorious and ridiculous. He slept badly; his long endeavor for a horse ended ...

— Buying a Horse • William Dean Howells

... still stranger forms at the time to which I refer. The community of plan which is observable in each great group of animals was hypostatised into a Platonic idea with the appropriate name of "archetype," and we were told, as a disciple of Philo-Judaeus might have ...

— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley

... of Lordships or lands without the knowledge of, or in opposition to the wish and interest of the community was a heinous sin, and the guilty party was always disburgessed, which ...

— The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 • Various

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