Citizens vs Community - What's the difference?
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A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
* Hallam
* Wordsworth
A commune, or residential or religious collective.
The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
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, title= (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.
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* (Washington Irving)
(obsolete) common character; likeness.
* H. Spencer
(obsolete) commonness; frequency
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As nouns the difference between citizens and community
is that citizens is plural of lang=en while community is a group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.community
English
Noun
(wikipedia community) (communities)- Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community .
- 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)
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- The original community of all things.
- An unreserved community of thought and feeling.
- The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
- Eyes sick and blunted with community .