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n. (group) | 1. community | a group of people living in a particular local area.; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community" |
| ~ assemblage, gathering | a group of persons together in one place. |
| ~ parish | a local church community. |
| ~ convent | a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together. |
| ~ house | the members of a religious community living together. |
| ~ islam nation, islamic ummah, muslim ummah, umma, ummah | the Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan.; "moderate Muslims urge the Ummah to reject the terrorism of radical Muslims" |
| ~ speech community | people sharing a given language or dialect. |
| ~ neighborhood, neighbourhood | people living near one another.; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" |
| ~ small town, village, settlement | a community of people smaller than a town. |
| ~ crossroads, hamlet | a community of people smaller than a village. |
| ~ horde | a nomadic community. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ aleut | a community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska.; "the Aleut and the Eskimo are related culturally and linguistically" |
| ~ circassian | a mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia. |
| ~ inka, inca | 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. |
| ~ kechua, quechua | 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. |
n. (possession) | 2. community | common ownership.; "they shared a community of possessions" |
| ~ ownership | the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others. |
n. (group) | 3. community | a group of nations having common interests.; "they hoped to join the NATO community" |
| ~ global organization, international organisation, international organization, world organisation, world organization | an international alliance involving many different countries. |
n. (state) | 4. community, community of interests | agreement as to goals.; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" |
| ~ accord, agreement | harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.; "the two parties were in agreement" |
n. (location) | 5. community, residential area, residential district | a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences. |
| ~ housing development | a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management.; "they live in the new housing development" |
| ~ housing estate | a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time. |
| ~ district, territorial dominion, territory, dominion | a region marked off for administrative or other purposes. |
| ~ planned community | a residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents. |
| ~ uptown | a residential part of town away from the central commercial district. |
| ~ suburb, suburban area, suburbia | a residential district located on the outskirts of a city. |
| ~ exurbia | a residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia. |
| ~ tenement district | a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses. |
| ~ rabbit warren, warren | an overcrowded residential area. |
| ~ georgetown | a section of northwestern Washington, D.C.. |
| ~ greenwich village, village | a mainly residential district of Manhattan; `the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century. |
n. (group) | 6. biotic community, community | (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other. |
| ~ group, grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. |
| ~ bionomics, environmental science, ecology | the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment. |
| ~ biome | a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate. |
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