Word a Day
community
What does community mean?
community (noun): a group of people living in a particular local area.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use community in a sentence?
- The team is drawn from all parts of the community. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce community?
/kəˈmjunəti/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does community come from?
From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (Modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “community” mean?
a group of people living in a particular local area
Right! That's what “community” means.
a word or expression used for some particular thing
Not quite: that's what term means.
the time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced
Not quite: that's what future means.
a language unit by which a person or thing is known
Not quite: that's what name means.
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