Community /(?)/

pl. Communities

1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.

   The original community of all things.

   An unreserved community of thought and feeling.

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.

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.

4. Common character; likeness. [R.]

   The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.

5. Commonness; frequency. [Obs.]

   Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community.