| 释义 |
com·mu·ni·ty
\kəˈmyünəd.ē, -ətē, -i\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English comunete, from Middle French communité, comuneté, from Latin communitat-, communitas, from communis common + -itat-, -itas -ity
1. : a body of individuals organized into a unit or manifesting usually with awareness some unifying trait:
a. : state, commonwealth
b. : the people living in a particular place or region and usually linked by common interests; broadly : the region itself : any population cluster
< small, compact, homogeneous communities such as the Greek city-state or Elizabethan England — C.D.Lewis >
c. : a monastic body or other unified religious group
d. : an interacting population of different kinds of individuals (as species) constituting a society or association or simply an aggregation of mutually related individuals in a given location
< a climax community >
e. : a group of people marked by a common characteristic but living within a larger society that does not share that characteristic
< the Chinese community in New York >
< the artists' community downtown >
< the Jewish community in London >
especially : such a group politically organized and recognized especially as a separate voting group for election purposes
< Sikh and Muslim communities in India >
f. : a group sharing a particular economic or social belief and living communally
g. : any group sharing interests or pursuits
< a community of scholars >
: a group linked by a common policy
< a tariff community of small nations >
h. : a body of persons or nations united by historical consciousness or by common social, economic, and political interests
< the entire Christian community >
< the European coal and steel community >
2. : society at large : public : people in general — used with the definite article
< the interests of the community >
3.
a. : common or joint ownership, tenure, experience, or pertinence : commonness, sharing, participation
< asserts that community of goods would be the ideal institution — G.L.Dickinson >
< out of the atmosphere of controversy to the community of our love again — Mary Austin >
< the essential community of interests shared by all branches of learning — G.W.Cottrell >
b. : common character : fact of showing a trait or various traits in common : agreement, concord, likeness
< although there are varieties, the community of style is still more evident — O. Elfrida Saunders >
c. : shared activity : social intercourse : fellowship, communion; especially : social activity marked by a feeling of unity but also individual participation completely willing and not forced or coerced and without loss of individuality
< in order that there may be a community, there must be conscious and purposive sharing — Ernest Barker >
d. obsolete : frequent occurrence
e. : a social or societal state
< emerging from feral isolation into community >
4. : a civil-law partnership or society of property between husband and wife arising by virtue of the fact of marriage or by contract |