Dictionary entry details
• COMMUNITY (noun)
Meaning:
A group of people living in a particular local area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
the team is drawn from all parts of the community
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "community"):
horde (a nomadic community)
crossroads; hamlet (a community of people smaller than a village)
settlement; small town; village (a community of people smaller than a town)
neighborhood; neighbourhood (people living near one another)
speech community (people sharing a given language or dialect)
parish (a local church community)
Meaning:
A group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context examples:
the Christian community of the apostolic age / he was well known throughout the Catholic community
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "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)
Meaning:
Common ownership
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Context example:
they shared a community of possessions
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
ownership (the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others)
Meaning:
A group of nations having common interests
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
they hoped to join the NATO community
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
global organization; international organisation; international organization; world organisation; world organization (an international alliance involving many different countries)
Meaning:
The body of people in a learned occupation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
profession; community
Context example:
the news spread rapidly through the medical community
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
occupational group; vocation (a body of people doing the same kind of work)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "community"):
priesthood (the body of ordained religious practitioners)
economics profession (the body of professional economists)
community of scholars (the body of individuals holding advanced academic degrees)
business community; businessmen (the body of individuals who manage businesses)
health profession (the body of individuals whose work helps to maintain the health of their clients)
bar; legal community; legal profession (the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction)
Meaning:
Agreement as to goals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
community of interests; community
Context example:
the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
accord; agreement (harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters)
Meaning:
A district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
residential area; residential district; community
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Meronyms (parts of "community"):
housing development (a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management)
housing estate (a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "community"):
rabbit warren; warren (an overcrowded residential area)
tenement district (a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses)
exurbia (a residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia)
suburb; suburban area; suburbia (a residential district located on the outskirts of a city)
uptown (a residential part of town away from the central commercial district)
planned community (a residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents)
Instance hyponyms:
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)
Meaning:
(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
biotic community; community
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
Domain category:
bionomics; ecology; environmental science (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "community"):
biome (a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate)
