communities Definition

community
noun communities

1a. The group of people living in a particular place;

Thesaurus: society, public, people, nation, body politic.
1b. The place in which they live.

Thesaurus: town, city, village.
2. A group of people bonded together by a common religion, nationality or occupation.

Example: the Asian community
3. A religious or spiritual fellowship of people living together.

Thesaurus: fellowship, brotherhood, fraternity.
4. The quality or fact of being shared or common.

Example: community of interests
Thesaurus: identity, similarity, likeness, affinity, rapport.
5. A group of states with common interests.
6. The public; society in general.
7. biol.
A naturally occurring group of different plant or animal species that occupy the same habitat and interact with each other.

Etymology: 14c: from Latin communitas fellowship, from communis common.