Noun
1. a group of people living in a particular local area;
"the team is drawn from all parts of the community"2. a group of people having ethnic or cultural or religious characteristics in common;
"the Christian community of the apostolic age""he was well known throughout the Catholic community"3. common ownership;
"they shared a community of possessions"4. a group of nations having common interests;
"they hoped to join the NATO community"5. the body of people in a learned occupation;
"the news spread rapidly through the medical community"6. agreement as to goals;
"the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests"7. a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
8. (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other