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Our community worked together to clean the park.
What does Community mean?
A community is people connected by place or something they share, or living things that interact in one area.
Dictionary definition
The people in an area or a group connected by an interest, identity, or purpose; it can also mean the public, a feeling of fellowship, or interacting living things in one habitat.
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Community in a sentence
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The online community shares advice about growing vegetables.
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A pond community includes interacting plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms.
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Practice 1
What can community mean?
A community connects people through a place, interest, identity, or purpose.
Practice 2
Which sentence uses the biology meaning of community?
In ecology, a community is made of populations of living things that occur and interact in one area.
Practice 3
What does a sense of community describe?
A sense of community is the feeling of belonging to and caring about a group.
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Community
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kuh · myoo · nuh · tee · strongest beat: myoo
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WordCommunity.
Partnoun.
MeaningCommunity means A community is people connected by place or something they share, or living things that interact in one area.
ExampleExample: Our community worked together to clean the park.
Word breakdown
4 syllables. Say each part, then blend the word.
- Syllables
- kuh · myoo · nuh · tee
- Strongest beat
- myoo
- Ending
- tee
- Tip
- Put a little extra energy on myoo.
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Synonyms
Words like Community
neighborhoodUse for the people or area close to where someone lives; community can connect people in other ways too.
groupA broad substitute when people share an interest or purpose, though not every group has lasting community ties.
publicUse when community means the people of a place considered together, as in serving the community.
Antonym review
Does Community have an opposite?
Community has no single precise opposite across its people, public, fellowship, and ecological senses. Isolation and division can contrast with social connection, but neither is an antonym of the group itself.
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Word family
Community word family
Base word
community
noun
communities
The plural form of community.
adjective
communal
Shared by or involving members of a community.
adverb
communally
In a shared or community-based way.
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Hint for students
Look for people connected by place or something shared; in biology, look for different living populations interacting in one area.
Common mix-up
Community does not always mean a neighborhood or even a physical place. It can name a shared-interest group, the public, a feeling of fellowship, or an ecological group of living things.
Try it in class or at home
Students sort short examples into place, shared-interest, public, fellowship, and ecology senses, then underline the clue that identifies each meaning.
Teacher prompt
Compare a local community, an online community, a sense of community, and a pond community. Ask what is connected in each use.
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