Other forms: communities
A community is a group of people who share a place or an interest. The local community, a strong community, community centre.
It covers both the geographic sense — a village, an estate — and the interest sense, where an online community shares nothing but a subject. Community is one of the most positively loaded words in English: almost nothing described as community-based is being criticised. Note community service, a court sentence; community spirit; and that the Latin means holding something in common.
1nouncommunityA group of people who share a place or an interest.
“The whole community came together to rebuild the school after the fire.”
community is a group of people.
Latin communitas comes from communis, common — com plus munus, a duty or gift. Municipal, immune and common come from the same shared obligation.
Proto-Indo-European
*mey- (change)
Latin
commūnitās — community; public spirit
Old French
communité
Middle English
communite
English, today
community
Built from
From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”), from commūnis (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -itās. by surface analysis, commun(e) + commune + ity. Displaced native Old English ġemǣnsċipe. a doublet of communitas.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA