Noun

(en noun)

A complete domicile occupying only part of a building.

apartment dwellers

(archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.

*

By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.

(obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment

* 1883 April 23, Slawson ''v.'' Grand Street R. Co. , 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,

The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments', the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper '''apartment'''. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower ' apartment , which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....

Noun

(wikipedia community) (communities)

A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.

* Hallam

Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community .

* Wordsworth

Creatures that in communities exist.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)

A commune, or residential or religious collective.

The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)

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(ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.

(internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.

(obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.

* (John Locke)

The original community of all things.

* (Washington Irving)

An unreserved community of thought and feeling.

(obsolete) common character; likeness.

* H. Spencer

The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.

(obsolete) commonness; frequency

* Shakespeare

Eyes sick and blunted with community .