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(), n.; pl. Communities (). [L. communitas: cf. OF. communit. 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. 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. Comm スポンサード リンク
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