community

community (http://definr.com/community)

     adj 1: affecting the people or community as a whole; "community
            leaders"; "community interests"; "the public welfare"
            [syn: community(a), public]
     2: belonging to and maintained by and for the local community;
        "community parks"
     n 1: a group of people living in a particular local area; "the
          team is drawn from all parts of the community"
     2: 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"
     3: common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions"
     4: a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to
        join the NATO community"
     5: the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread
        rapidly through the medical community" [syn: profession]
     6: agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers
        found they had a community of interests" [syn: {community
        of interests}]
     7: a district where people live; occupied primarily by private
        residences [syn: residential district, residential area]
     8: (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the
        same region and interacting with each other [syn: {biotic
        community}]