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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Community \Com*mu"ni*ty\, n.; pl {Communities}. [L. communitas: cf OF communit['e]. Cf {Commonalty}, and see {Common}.] 1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as a community of goods. The original community of all things --Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. --W. Irving. 2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests. Creatures that in communities exist. --Wordsworth. 3. Society at large a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general. Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community. --Hallam. Note: In this sense the term should be used with the definite article; as the interests of the community. 4. Common character; likeness. [R.] The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. --H. Spencer. 5. Commonness; frequency. [Obs.] Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: community adj 1: affecting the people or community as a whole; "community leaders"; "community interests"; "the public welfare" [syn: {community(a)}, {public}] 2: belonging to and maintained by and for the local community; "community parks" n 1: a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community" 2: a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common; "the Christian community of the apostolic age"; "he was well known throughout the Catholic community" 3: common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions" 4: a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community" 5: agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" [syn: {community of interests}] 6: the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical community" [syn: {profession}] 7: a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences [syn: {residential district}, {residential area}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Community, VA Zip code(s): 22306
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