Synonyms for community
kəˈmyu nɪ ticom·mu·ni·ty

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. community

   We speak of an alliance of nations, a club of pleasure-seekers, a community of Shakers, a company of soldiers or of friends, a confederacy, confederation, federation, or union of separate states under one general government, a partnership or company of business men, a conjunction of planets. The whole body of Freemasons constitute a fraternity; one of their local organizations is called a lodge. A corporation or company is formed for purposes of business; an association or society (tho also incorporated) is for learning, literature, benevolence, religion, etc. Compare ASSOCIATE; ACQUAINTANCE; FRIENDSHIP.

   Synonyms:
   alliance, association, club, companionship, company, confederacy, confederation, conjunction, connection, corporation, familiarity, federation, fellowship, fraternity, friendship, lodge, participation, partnership, society, union

   Antonyms:
   disintegration, independence, isolation, separation, solitude

   Preposition:
   An association of scholars for the advancement of knowledge; association with the good is ennobling.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.2 / 5 votes

1. community

   Synonyms:
   aggregation, association, commonwealth, co-ordination, society, sympathy, order, class, brotherhood, fraternity, polity, unity, nationality, similarity, homogeneity

   Antonyms:
   segregation, secession, independence, dissociation, disconnection, rivalry, hostility, animosity, estrangement, dissimilarity, contrariance, heterogeneity

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 4 votes

1. communitynoun

   a group of people living in a particular local area

   "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

2. communitynoun

   common ownership

   "they shared a community of possessions"

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

3. communitynoun

   a group of nations having common interests

   "they hoped to join the NATO community"

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

4. community, community of interestsnoun

   agreement as to goals

   "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

5. residential district, residential area, communitynoun

   a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

6. community, biotic communitynoun

   (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other

   Synonyms:
   community of interests, residential area, biotic community, residential district

Matched Categories

1. • Agreement
   • District
   • Ecology
   • Gathering
   • Group
   • Ownership
   • World Organization

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1. harmony day

   everyone in the community is included including babies

   everyone is in a community together

   Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. communitynoun

   Synonyms:
   common or joint possession

2. communitynoun

   Synonyms:
   [With The prefixed.] commonwealth, people, public, society, body politic

3. communitynoun

   Synonyms:
   association, brotherhood, college

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "community":

   communities, community-based, society, communautaire, social, commonwealth, eu, communauté, communal, comunidad, communautaires, collectivité, communitybased, collectivity, gemeenschap, community-wide, ec, gemeinschaft, communitarian, comunitario, community-level, comunidade, union, environment, comunitaria, grass-roots

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1. Jane Needham:

   Katrina was one of our best and brightest barristers who will be greatly missed by her colleagues and friends at the NSW Bar, she was a devoted mother of three children, and a valued member of her floor and of our bar community.

2. Chief Abbassi:

   It will not immediately restore public confidence that State Police are committed to providing every resident of Paterson with fair, just, and effective public safety, nor will it address the concerns of officers asked to do a hard and dangerous job in a community that – after years of fiscal challenges and a revolving door of police leadership – has lost faith in Paterson Police Department, making the jobs of those officers even more difficult.

3. Connie Phillips:

   We provide a home for them to live in, we furnish the home, we provide food, we make sure that they have everything they need, and then we begin to work with them so that they can learn about our culture, they can understand how to live in this new community that they find themselves in. We help enroll their children in school and work with them about understanding how the American school system works, and we help them with health care as well as employment.

4. Daud Saba:

   And then any other lapis with no certificate should be banned by the international community, as they have done with blood diamonds.

5. Uzma Alkarim:

   Around six months ago, our community elders had alerted us to be careful because of security threats but things had calmed down recently.