community

community
noun
1 PEOPLE (countable, also + plural verb BrE) BrE all the people who live in the same area, town etc: an arts centre built to serve the whole community | community affairs/needs/relations etc: We meet once a month to discuss community problems. | community spirit (=the desire to be friendly with and help other people who live in the same community)
2 PARTICULAR GROUP sense of community the feeling that you belong to a group of people because you live in the same area
3 (C) a group of people who share the same nationality or religion or who are similar in another way: There are many different ethnic communities living in New York. | the gay community
4 the community society and the people in it: The trend is towards reintegrating mentally ill people into the community. | the international community (=all the countries of the world)
-see also: EC
5 PLANTS/ANIMALS (C) a group of plants or animals that live in the same environment: Communities of otters are slowly returning to several British rivers.

Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.

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