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COMMUNITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
Domain category:
bionomics; ecology; environmental science (the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "community"):
biome (a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common
Example:
they formed a community of scientists
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A group of people living in a particular local area
Example:
the team is drawn from all parts of the community
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "community"):
Circassian (a mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia)
Aleut (a community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska)
horde (a nomadic community)
crossroads; hamlet (a community of people smaller than a village)
settlement; small town; village (a community of people smaller than a town)
neighborhood; neighbourhood (people living near one another)
speech community (people sharing a given language or dialect)
Islam Nation; Islamic Ummah; Muslim Ummah; Umma; Ummah (the Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan)
house (the members of a religious community living together)
convent (a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together)
parish (a local church community)
Instance hyponyms:
Zulu (a community of Negroid people in eastern South Africa)
Xhosa (a community of Negroid people in southern South Africa)
Kechua; Quechua (a community of South American Indians in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Incan Empire)
Inca; Inka (the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s)
Akwa'ala (a community of Native Americans who speak a Hokan language and live in Baja California)
Achomawi (a community of Native Americans who speak a Hokan language and live in northeastern California)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A group of nations having common interests
Example:
they hoped to join the NATO community
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
global organization; international organisation; international organization; world organisation; world organization (an international alliance involving many different countries)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
Synonyms:
community; residential area; residential district
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Meronyms (parts of "community"):
housing estate (a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time)
housing development (a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "community"):
planned community (a residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents)
uptown (a residential part of town away from the central commercial district)
suburb; suburban area; suburbia (a residential district located on the outskirts of a city)
exurbia (a residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia)
tenement district (a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses)
rabbit warren; warren (an overcrowded residential area)
Instance hyponyms:
Georgetown (a section of northwestern Washington, D.C.)
Greenwich Village; Village (a mainly residential district of Manhattan; 'the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Common ownership
Example:
they shared a community of possessions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
ownership (the relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others)
Derivation:
communal (for or by a group rather than individuals)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Agreement as to goals
Example:
the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests
Synonyms:
community; community of interests
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("community" is a kind of...):
accord; agreement (harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters)
Context examples:
The Brief Symptom Inventory 18 (BSI 18) assessment gathers patient-reported data to help measure psychological distress and psychiatric disorders in medical and community populations.
(Brief Symptom Inventory 18, NCI Thesaurus)
In medicine, a group of non-scientist volunteers that serves as a link between a community and clinical trial researchers.
(CAB, NCI Dictionary)
Nurse educators work in various settings, including colleges/universities, community colleges, hospitals, nursing homes, private practice, etc.
(Nurse Educator, NCI Thesaurus)
These emphasis areas are developed jointly with the scientific, medical, and public health communities.
(NIH Emphasis Area, NCI Thesaurus)
Such persons are sensitive to socio-economic factors within the community and provide a variety of services.
(Patient Navigator, NCI Thesaurus)
Clinical specialists in pediatric nursing practice across the trajectory of care in settings which include primary, acute, community, or rehabilitation.
(Pediatric nurse specialist, NCI Thesaurus)
“It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Begone! I will not hear you. There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
NCIt is updated monthly to support precise coding of data based on the most recent developments in the cancer and biomedical research community.
(NCI Thesaurus, NCI Thesaurus)
DCLG members will interact directly with the scientific community at NCI on a wide range of programs and issues.
(NCI Director's Consumer Liaison Group, NCI Thesaurus)
