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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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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
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