different between household vs community

English

Etymology

From Middle English houshold, equivalent to house +? hold. Cognate with Scots houshald, housald, housell, howsell (“household”), Dutch huishouden (“household”), German Low German Huushollen (“household”), German Haushalt (“household”), Swedish hushåll (“household, family”), Norwegian husholdning (“household”).

Pronunciation

• (UK): IPA^(key): /?ha?sh??ld/
• (US): enPR: hous?h?ld, IPA^(key): /?ha?sho?ld/

Noun

household (plural households)

1. Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 5:

     Although I was a member of the royal household, I was not among the privileged few who were trained for rule.

   • 1732, Jonathan Swift, The Beasts' Confession to the Priest

     And calls, without affecting airs, / His household twice a day to prayers.

2. (obsolete) A line of ancestry; a race or house.
   • 1592, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, IV. vi. 39:

     In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.

Translations

Adjective

household (not comparable)

1. Belonging to the same house and family.
2. Found in or having its origin in a home.
3. Widely known to the public; familiar.

   a household word; a household name

Derived terms

Translations

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