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Noun community has 8 senses

community - a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"
--₁ is a kind of gathering, assemblage
--₁ has particulars:
parish; speech community; neighborhood, neighbourhood; village, small town, settlement; hamlet, crossroads; horde
community - a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common; "the Christian community of the apostolic age"; "he was well known throughout the Catholic community"
--₂ is a kind of people
--₂ has particulars:
convent; house; Ummah, Umma, Muslim Ummah, Islamic Ummah, Islam Nation
community - common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions"
--₃ is a kind of ownership
community - a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community"
--₄ is a kind of world organization, world organisation, international organization, international organisation, global organization
profession, community - the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical community"
--₅ is a kind of occupational group, vocation
--₅ has particulars:
legal profession, bar, legal community; health profession; businessmen, business community; community of scholars; economics profession; priesthood
community, community of interests - agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"
--₆ is a kind of agreement, accord
residential district, residential area, community - a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
--₇ is a kind of district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion
--₇ has parts: housing development; housing estate
--₇ has particulars:
uptown; suburb, suburbia, suburban area; exurbia; tenement district; warren, rabbit warren; Georgetown; Greenwich Village, Village
community, biotic community - (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
--₈ is a kind of group, grouping
--₈ has particulars: biome