Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government.
- noun The district or locality in which such a group lives.
- noun A group of people having common interests.
- noun A group viewed as forming a distinct segment of society.
- noun Similarity or identity.
- noun Sharing, participation, and fellowship.
- noun Society as a whole; the public.
- noun A group of organisms interacting with one another and with the environment in a specific region.
- noun The region occupied by a group of interacting organisms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Common possession or enjoyment; the holding or sharing of interests, possessions, or privileges in common by two or more individuals: as, a community of goods; community of interests between husband and wife.
- noun Life in association with others; the social state.
- noun A number of people associated together by the fact of residence in the same locality, or of subjection to the same local laws and regulations; a village, township, or municipality.
- noun A society or association of persons having common interests or privileges, commercial, social, political, or ecclesiastical, and subject to the same regulations; now, especially, a society of this nature in which the members reside together or in the same locality: as, the Oneida Community (see below).
- noun The body of people in a state or commonwealth; the public, or people in general: used in this sense always with the definite article.
- noun Commonness; frequency.
- noun In logic, the being possessed in common by several subjects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
- noun A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests.
- noun Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.
- noun rare Common character; likeness.
- noun obsolete Commonness; frequency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See
civilization . - noun A
commune , orresidential orreligious collective . - noun The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
- noun ecology A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
- noun Internet A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a
virtual community . - noun obsolete Common possession or enjoyment;
participation . - noun obsolete
common character ;likeness . - noun obsolete
commonness ;frequency
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a group of people living in a particular local area
- noun a group of nations having common interests
- noun (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
- noun a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
- noun common ownership
- noun agreement as to goals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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How else would we have developed such a “tight-knit community”, with * community* being the key word?
Knitters Never Comment! Harry 2008
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What you're describing in fact as "the community" is *your little grouplet you feel is the community* where someone with a pre-existing RL connection or game connection to a friend/colleague in ACS ginned this thing up.
State of Play Virtual Architecture 1.0: Contest Judges Say Enough with the Simulacra Already 2005
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The concept of community management contains the word community.
Chapter 5 2000
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Judging of things by the light of human prudence, he thought the community could never raise itself again to the position it occupied before the fire, and wishing to prevent a multiplicity of institutions in his diocese, he formed the design of uniting the _rising community_ to the _Ursulines_ at Quebec.
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A community that is to any extent governed from without, like British India or London, is not a State, but part of a State, for it is not a _perfect community_.
Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888
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So we don't, for example, put a lot of effort into finding a way to control the alcoholism of aboriginals, or trying to stop domestic violence and gangs in the Sikh community, or put a lid on fraud in the Chinese community* because we don't want to admit out loud that these problems exist.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Razib Khan 2010
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_patronized_; patronized, not by a few persons, not by one half, or three fourths even of a community, but by the _whole community_.
Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Ira Mayhew 1854
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In a speech today, Brown will say: "I want serving your community to become a normal part of growing up in every community, because everyone has something unique to give and a great deal to gain from doing so.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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In education, the term "community partners" often conjures images of parent groups or local businesses who assist with fundraising drives.
Alison Suffet Diaz: Keeping it Real: When the Community Becomes the Classroom Alison Suffet Diaz 2011
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In education, the term "community partners" often conjures images of parent groups or local businesses who assist with fundraising drives.
Alison Suffet Diaz: Keeping it Real: When the Community Becomes the Classroom Alison Suffet Diaz 2011
bkerr commented on the word community
I just spent 30 minutes in a meeting where participants (unsuccessfully) tried to decide what they meant by "community."
December 16, 2006
shii commented on the word community
God I hate this word.
February 13, 2007
grantneufeld commented on the word community
Certainly much misused and maligned in corporate and technology circles, ‘community’ remains an extremely critical word in work for constructive social change.
The destruction of meaningful community in “western�? societies is a key component of the social and environmental problems in the world today. The dissociation that is enmeshed in virtually all aspects of the “modern�? industrial/post-industrial society is at the root of our social ailments—which we cannot truly hope to overcome without finding ways to bring people together to form viable, ongoing and sustainable interconnections.
February 22, 2007
planspark commented on the word community
"A community is a group of people who form relationships over time by interacting regularly around shared experiences, which are of interest to all of them for varying individual reasons." -- Jake McGee, 2005/02/28 (Source)
January 8, 2008
yarb commented on the word community
I've never liked this word. Everyone seems to want to put me in some community or other. Politicians, marketers. It's really an emasculated word in my opinion.
January 8, 2008
reesetee commented on the word community
I agree, yarb. Check out uselessness' A Collectivist Utopia list (if you haven't already). :-)
January 8, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word community
'Judge Learned Hand, one of Simon Flexner's closest friends, later observed, "That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, becomes a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent."'
—John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (NY: Penguin Books, 2004), 125
February 14, 2009
takchess commented on the word community
Question for the Management or the Community at Large....
I know I can add a word as a favorite; can I or will I later be able to add a fellow member's list as a favorite? If so, how ?
February 21, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word community
Takchess, when you go to one of your favorite lists, there should be an option at the top which says "love." Click on that to "favorite" the list. If that isn't available or doesn't work, we can go to the feedback thingee and ask there.
February 21, 2012
tchaymore commented on the word community
@chained_bear Great quote! Judge Learned Hand, aside from having one of the best names ever, has some great quotes.
February 25, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word community
Happy holidays, everybody!
December 24, 2014
qms commented on the word community
What a clever idea ruzuzu has had! May your holidays of choice be merry ones.
December 24, 2014
qms commented on the word community
Dear Wordniks my aim is to woo you
To visit "community" if you choose to.
Let not this hiatus
Depress or abate us,
Let's flock to the beckoning ruzuzu.
December 25, 2014
erinmckean commented on the word community
I'm so glad y'all are here ... a quick update. Moving the servers (as part of our push to be a separate, not-for-profit) has broken a couple of things, including email notifications and the Community page, and the deploy process. :-(
So we're working to get the deploy process fixed so that we can fix the other things. Please don't hesitate to email me if you find anything else we should know about it.
Moving the servers has felt like nothing so much as pulling an old house off its foundations and trucking it down the street, and then trying to reconnect it all on the new site. (And then finding out the previous foundation used different gauges of pipe for everything.)
Onwards!
December 26, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word community
Thank you for the update, Erin. And thanks for the encouragement, qms!
December 26, 2014
deinonychus commented on the word community
I'm glad to see that you're all still alive! (I found my way here by googling "502 Bad Gateway" and then following ruzuzu.)
December 28, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word community
That's fantastic, deinonychus! It feels like I put a message in a bottle and just received one in return. Where else should we leave tags and comments? I'll note that over on bilby's page, madmouth was suggesting that we could meet up on the word of the day.
December 29, 2014
bilby commented on the word community
I'm very disappointed that ruzuzu, as Wordnik Safety Warden, didn't marshall us to emergency assembly point.
December 30, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word community
Brackets around "Wordnik Safety Warden," please.
December 30, 2014
bilby commented on the word community
I'm not sure we need brackets when Wordnik Safety Warden is written on your helmet in extremely sensible lettering.
December 30, 2014
bilby commented on the word community
But I presume you're asking for the purpose of public order. So.
December 30, 2014