Community

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Commonness; frequency.

II. Community ·noun Common character; likeness.

III. Community ·noun Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.

IV. Community ·noun Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.

V. Community ·noun 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.