<p><strong>noun, plural</strong></p><ul><li>a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage.</li><li>a locality inhabited by such a group.</li><li>a social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists: the community of scholars; the business community; diversity within a college community; London's Jewish and Muslim communities.</li><li>a group of associated nations sharing common interests or a common heritage: the community of Western Europe.</li><li>Ecclesiastical: a group of men or women leading a common life according to a rule.</li><li>Ecology: an assemblage of interacting populations occupying a given area.</li><li>joint possession, enjoyment, liability, etc.: community of property.</li><li>similarity; agreement; identity: community of interests.</li></ul>