OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4343

community

/kəˈmjuː.nɪ.ti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
comunidad
A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
Henry VII obtained from his first parliament a grant of tonnage and poundage during life, according to several precedents of former reigns. But when general subsidies were granted,…
Nor wanting here, to entertain the thought, / Creatures, that in communities exist, / Less, at might seem, for general guardianship / Or through dependance upon mutual aid, / Than…
comuna
A residential or religious collective; a commune.
The Beguines, an uncloistered religiously inspired woman's movement began about the year 1210 in Liége, Belgium. Generally the Beguines lived in community or in small cottages behi…