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Community
A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living things) who have something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity. Communities often share a sense of place that is situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, town, or neighborhood) or in virtual space through communication platforms. Durable relations that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties also define a sense of community. People tend to define those social ties as important to their identity, practice, and roles in social institutions like family, home, work, government, society, or humanity, at large. Although communities are usually small relative to personal social ties (micro-level), “community” may also refer to large group affiliations (or macro-level), such as national communities, international communities, and virtual communities.
The word “community” derives from the Old French comuneté, which comes from the Latin communitas “community”, “public spirit” (from Latin communis, “shared in common”).
Human communities may share intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, and risks in common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.
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Association (noun)
The act of associating.
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Association (noun)
The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
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Association (noun)
Any quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
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Association (noun)
A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
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Association (noun)
Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
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Community (noun)
A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition.
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Community (noun)
A residential or religious collective; a commune.
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Community (noun)
A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
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Community (noun)
A group of people interacting by professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
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Community (noun)
The condition of having certain interests in common.
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Community (noun)
Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
“a community of goods”
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Community (noun)
Common character; likeness.
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Community (noun)
Commonness; frequency.