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community

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin comm?nit?s (community; public spirit), from comm?nis (common, ordinary; of or for the community, public) + -it?s (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh?ts (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being)). Comm?nis is derived from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) (from cum (with), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (along, at, next to, with)) + m?nus (employment, office, service; burden, duty, obligation) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (to change, exchange)). Doublet of communitas.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??mju?n?ti/
  • (General American, Canada) enPR: k?-myo?o?n?-ti, IPA(key): /k(?)?mjun?ti/, [k(?)?mjun??i]
  • Hyphenation: com?mun?i?ty

Noun

community (countable and uncountable, plural communities)

  1. (countable) A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition.
  2. (countable) A residential or religious collective; a commune.
  3. (countable, ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
  4. (countable, Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
  5. (uncountable) The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
  6. (countable, obsolete) Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
  7. (uncountable, obsolete) Common character; likeness.
  8. (uncountable, obsolete) Commonness; frequency.
  9. (Wales, countable) A local area within a county or county borough which is the lowest tier of local government, usually represented by a community council or town council, which is generally equivalent to a civil parish in England.

Alternative forms

  • communitie (obsolete)

Antonyms

  • anticommunity
  • noncommunity

Hyponyms

  • subcommunity

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

  • community at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • community in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • "community" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 75.
  • community in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Further reading

  • community on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • community (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Community (Wales) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

community From the web:

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  • what community do i belong to
  • what community character am i
  • what community means
  • what community board am i in
  • what community colleges are near me
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chronoclasm

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (khrónos, time), and ??????? (klást?s, a person who breaks something); from ???? (klá?, break)

Noun

chronoclasm (plural chronoclasms)

  1. The intentional destruction of clocks and other time artifacts
  2. (politics) The desire to crush the prevailing sense of time, due to a conflict regarding the fixation of linear time in a community
  3. A temporarily frazzled mental state resulting from confusion over what time it is.
  4. (science fiction) An interference with the course of history caused by time travel.

References

  • Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism - E P Thompson - PDF-version
  • Mastered By The Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
  • "Chronoclasm" John Wyndham, 1953

chronoclasm From the web:

  • what does chronoclasm mean
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