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noun

Community n. (pl. communities)

Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. "The original community of all things." "An unreserved community of thought and feeling."

A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests. "Creatures that in communities exist."

Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general. "Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community." Note: In this sense, the term should be used with the definite article; as, the interests of the community.

Common character; likeness. (R.) "The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth."

Commonness; frequency. (Obs.) "Eyes... sick and blunted with community."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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