Antonyms for community


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kuh-myoo-ni-tee
Phonetic Transcription : kəˈmyu nɪ ti


Definition of community

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French comunité "community, commonness, everybody" (Modern French communauté), from Latin communitatem (nominative communitas) "community, society, fellowship, friendly intercourse; courtesy, condescension, affability," from communis "common, public, general, shared by all or many," (see common (adj.)). Latin communitatem "was merely a noun of quality ... meaning 'fellowship, community of relations or feelings,' but in med.L. it was, like universitas, used concretely in the sense of 'a body of fellows or fellow-townsmen' " [OED].
  • An Old English word for "community" was gemænscipe "community, fellowship, union, common ownership," from mæne "common, public, general," probably composed from the same PIE roots as communis. Community service as a criminal sentence is recorded from 1972, American English. Community college is recorded from 1959.
  • noun society, area of people
  • noun agreement, similarity
Example sentences :
  • No person, no home, no community can be beyond the reach of this call.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • And we find that children and community are the commitments that set us free.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • These meetings were productive of great good to the community and to individuals.
  • Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
  • Philistinism was the note of the age and community in which he lived.
  • Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
  • At intervals I talked to him, asking after all the other members of the community by name.
  • Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
  • Instead, he had slowly smothered her, but she had at least a dignity in the community.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
  • He pleaded for the machine—for the safety of the community, for the majesty of the law.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • No individual wealth protects a man from the sorrow that is crushing the community.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • Would you were anything half so serviceable to the community, Sir!
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 February 15, 1890 » by Various
  • The criminals of a community are ever its most expensive curses.
  • Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 » by Various

Synonyms for community

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