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community

/k(ə)ˈmju.nə.ti/
noun

A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.

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Noun 4 meanings

  1. A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.

  2. A residential or religious collective; a commune.

  3. A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.

  4. A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.

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Where it comes from

Etymology

From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”), from commūn(is) (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -itās. By surface analysis, commun(e) + -ity.

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anticommunitynoncommunity

COMMUNITY at a glance

COMMUNITY has 9 letters and scores 18 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + M 3 + M 3 + U 1 + N 1 + I 1 + T 1 + Y 4) and 22 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #429 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.

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