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

(wikipedia town) (en noun)

A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city.

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Any more urbanized center than the place of reference.

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A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.

The residents (as opposed to (gown): the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.

(label) (Used to refer to a town or similar entity under discussion).

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(label) A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.

(label) An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor.

(label) The whole of the land which constituted the domain.

(label) A collection of houses enclosed by fences or walls.

(Palsgrave)

A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.