com·mu·ni·ty /kəˈmjunəti/
  C社會,社區;C共同體;U同一地區的全體居民
  com·mu·ni·ty /kəˈmjunətɪ/ 名詞
  群落
  community
  社區 族群
  Com·mu·ni·ty n.; pl. Communities
  1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.
     The original community of all things.   --Locke.
     An unreserved community of thought and feeling.   --W. Irving.
  2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests.
     Creatures that in communities exist.   --Wordsworth.
  3. Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.
     Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community.   --Hallam.
  Note: ☞ In this sense, the term should be used with the definite article; as, the interests of the community.
  4. Common character; likeness. [R.]
     The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.   --H. Spencer.
  5. Commonness; frequency. [Obs.]
     Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community.   --Shak.
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  community
       n 1: a group of people living in a particular local area; "the
            team is drawn from all parts of the community"
       2: a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious
          characteristics in common; "the Christian community of the
          apostolic age"; "he was well known throughout the Catholic
          community"
       3: common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions"
       4: a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to
          join the NATO community"
       5: the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread
          rapidly through the medical community" [syn: profession]
       6: agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers
          found they had a community of interests" [syn: community
          of interests]
       7: a district where people live; occupied primarily by private
          residences [syn: residential district, residential area]
       8: (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the
          same region and interacting with each other [syn: biotic
          community]