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English

Alternative forms

• companie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?mp(?)ni/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?mp?ni/
• Hyphenation: com?pany

Noun

company (countable and uncountable, plural companies)

1. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
   1. A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.

   2. (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
   3. A unit of firefighters and their equipment.

   4. (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
   5. (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.

2. A small group of birds or animals.
3. (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
4. (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
5. (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
6. (uncountable) Companionship.

Synonyms

• (in legal context, a corporation): corporation
• (group of individuals with a common purpose): association, companionship, fellowship, organization, society
• (companionship): fellowship, friendship, mateship

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• accompany
• companion
• discompany

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (kampn?)

Translations

Verb

company (third-person singular simple present companies, present participle companying, simple past and past participle companied)

1. (archaic, transitive) To accompany, keep company with.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To associate.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be a lively, cheerful companion.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
   • a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. I. F.

     companying with Infidels may not be simply condemned

Synonyms

• (to accompany): attend, escort, go with
• (to have sexual intercourse): fornicate, have sex, make love; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom?pa?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum?pa?/

Noun

company m (plural companys, feminine companya)

1. companion, colleague
2. partner, mate

Derived terms

• acompanyar

Related terms

• companyia

Further reading

• “company” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Middle English

Noun

company

1. Alternative form of companye

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