COMMUNITY

Definitions

1. 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. Irwing.
2. 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. 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.
4. 4. Common character; likeness. [R.] The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. H. Spencer.
5. 5. Commonness; frequency. [Obs.] Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. Shak.