Synonyms for community
kəˈmyu nɪ ticom·mu·ni·ty

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1. community

   We speak of an alliance of nations, a club of pleasure-seekers, a community of Shakers, a company of soldiers or of friends, a confederacy, confederation, federation, or union of separate states under one general government, a partnership or company of business men, a conjunction of planets. The whole body of Freemasons constitute a fraternity; one of their local organizations is called a lodge. A corporation or company is formed for purposes of business; an association or society (tho also incorporated) is for learning, literature, benevolence, religion, etc. Compare ASSOCIATE; ACQUAINTANCE; FRIENDSHIP.

   Synonyms:
   alliance, association, club, companionship, company, confederacy, confederation, conjunction, connection, corporation, familiarity, federation, fellowship, fraternity, friendship, lodge, participation, partnership, society, union

   Antonyms:
   disintegration, independence, isolation, separation, solitude

   Preposition:
   An association of scholars for the advancement of knowledge; association with the good is ennobling.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.2 / 5 votes

1. community

   Synonyms:
   aggregation, association, commonwealth, co-ordination, society, sympathy, order, class, brotherhood, fraternity, polity, unity, nationality, similarity, homogeneity

   Antonyms:
   segregation, secession, independence, dissociation, disconnection, rivalry, hostility, animosity, estrangement, dissimilarity, contrariance, heterogeneity

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 4 votes

1. communitynoun

   a group of people living in a particular local area

   "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

2. communitynoun

   common ownership

   "they shared a community of possessions"

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

3. communitynoun

   a group of nations having common interests

   "they hoped to join the NATO community"

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

4. community, community of interestsnoun

   agreement as to goals

   "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

5. residential district, residential area, communitynoun

   a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

6. community, biotic communitynoun

   (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

Matched Categories

1. • Agreement
   • District
   • Ecology
   • Gathering
   • Group
   • Ownership
   • World Organization

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1. harmony day

   everyone in the community is included including babies

   everyone is in a community together

   Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. communitynoun

   Synonyms:
   common or joint possession

2. communitynoun

   Synonyms:
   [With The prefixed.] commonwealth, people, public, society, body politic

3. communitynoun

   Synonyms:
   association, brotherhood, college

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "community":

   communities, community-based, society, communautaire, social, commonwealth, eu, communauté, communal, comunidad, communautaires, collectivité, communitybased, collectivity, gemeenschap, community-wide, ec, gemeinschaft, communitarian, comunitario, community-level, comunidade, union, environment, comunitaria, grass-roots

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1. David Ferbrache:

   For us it's very much a bit of a call to arms across the community ... There's a lot more we can do.

2. Ken Slater:

   On behalf of the school board, I would like to say that we as a school are humbled by Gavin's service project and his ability to bring the community together for a great cause to honor our veterans. It also shows that we are in good hands with young people like Gavin.

3. President David Malpass on Friday:

   The world's poor are looking to the international community to show decisive leadership on debt relief, and I am confident of progress.

4. Jonathan Greenblatt:

   Our community has been terrorized once again by violent anti-Semitism, from Pittsburgh to Poway, and now to Jersey City, the disease that is anti-Semitism has clearly spread to epidemic proportions.

5. General Nagata:

   The US counterterrorism community has long held that the use of a biological agent of some kind for a major terrorist attack is not a matter of if, but when, the likelihood of a future terrorist using a highly potent, clandestinely produced, difficult to detect/identify/track, easily transportable and dispersible, and quite lethal biological weapon is rising significantly.