Antonyms for community
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kuh-myoo-ni-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : kəˈmyu nɪ ti |
Definition of community
Origin :- late 14c., from Old French comunité "community, commonness, everybody" (Modern French communauté), from Latin communitatem (nominative communitas) "community, society, fellowship, friendly intercourse; courtesy, condescension, affability," from communis "common, public, general, shared by all or many," (see common (adj.)). Latin communitatem "was merely a noun of quality ... meaning 'fellowship, community of relations or feelings,' but in med.L. it was, like universitas, used concretely in the sense of 'a body of fellows or fellow-townsmen' " [OED].
- An Old English word for "community" was gemænscipe "community, fellowship, union, common ownership," from mæne "common, public, general," probably composed from the same PIE roots as communis. Community service as a criminal sentence is recorded from 1972, American English. Community college is recorded from 1959.
- noun society, area of people
- noun agreement, similarity
- No person, no home, no community can be beyond the reach of this call.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- And we find that children and community are the commitments that set us free.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- These meetings were productive of great good to the community and to individuals.
- Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
- Philistinism was the note of the age and community in which he lived.
- Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
- At intervals I talked to him, asking after all the other members of the community by name.
- Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
- Instead, he had slowly smothered her, but she had at least a dignity in the community.
- Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
- He pleaded for the machine—for the safety of the community, for the majesty of the law.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- No individual wealth protects a man from the sorrow that is crushing the community.
- Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
- Would you were anything half so serviceable to the community, Sir!
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 February 15, 1890 » by Various
- The criminals of a community are ever its most expensive curses.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 » by Various
Synonyms for community
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