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.

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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 .

Noun

(en noun)

The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.

This rod is free to swing at the joint with the platform.

The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.

The water is leaking out of the joint between the two pipes.

(anatomy) Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.

The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.

The dovetail joint , while more difficult to make, is also quite strong.

A cut of meat.

Set the joint in a roasting tin and roast for the calculated cooking time.

The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.

a joint''' of cane or of a grass stem; a '''joint of the leg

(geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.

A restaurant, bar, nightclub or similar business.

It was the kind of joint you wouldn't want your boss to see you in.

(slang) (always with "the" ) prison

I'm just trying to stay out of the joint .

(slang) A marijuana cigarette.

After locking the door and closing the shades, they lit the joint .