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community - a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community" |
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assemblage,
gathering a group of persons together in one place
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parish a local church community
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convent a religious residence especially for nuns
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house play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults; "the children were playing house"
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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"
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speech community people sharing a given language or dialect
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neighbourhood,
neighborhood people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush"
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small town,
village,
settlement a community of people smaller than a town
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crossroads,
hamlet a point where a choice must be made; "Freud's work stands at the crossroads between psychology and neurology"
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horde a vast multitude
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aleut the language spoken by the Aleut
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circassian a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian
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community - (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other |
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group,
grouping any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
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bionomics,
environmental science,
ecology the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
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biome a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate
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community - common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions" |
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ownership the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others
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community - a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community" |
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global organization,
international organisation,
international organization,
world organisation,
world organization an international alliance involving many different countries
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community - agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" |
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accord,
agreement sympathetic compatibility
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