| Main Entry: | community |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | society, area of people |
Synonyms: |
association, body politic, center, colony, commonality, commonwealth, company, district, general public, hamlet, locality, nation, neck of the woods, neighborhood, people, populace, public, residents, society, state, stomping ground, territory, turf |
| Main Entry: | community |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, similarity |
Synonyms: |
affinity, identity, kinship, likeness, sameness, semblance |
Antonyms: |
disagreement, dissimilarity |
| Main Entry: | brotherhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | association |
Synonyms: |
affiliation, alliance, clan, clique, community, comradeship, confederacy, coterie, fellowship, fraternity, guild, kinship, league, society, union |
Antonyms: |
sisterhood |
| Main Entry: | civilization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | society |
Synonyms: |
civilized life, community, customs, literate society, modern humanity, mores, nation, people, polity, way of life |
| Main Entry: | commune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group living together |
Synonyms: |
collective, commonage, commonality, community, cooperative, family, kibbutz, municipality, neighborhood, rank and file, village |
| Main Entry: | company |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crowd of people |
Synonyms: |
aggregation, assemblage, assembly, association, band, body, circle, clan, clique, club, collection, community, concourse, congregation, convention, corps, cortege, coterie, crew, ensemble, gang*, gathering, group, horde, jungle*, league, mob*, muster, order, outfit, pack, party, retinue, ring, ruck, set, team, throng, troop, troupe, turnout, zoo |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | political territory; nation |
Synonyms: |
citizenry, citizens, commonwealth, community, constituents, electors, grass roots, homeland, inhabitants, kingdom, land, native land, patria, people, polity, populace, public, realm, region, society, soil, sovereign state, state, terrain, voters |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
| Main Entry: | district |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | geographical area |
Synonyms: |
commune, community, department, locale, locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, parcel, parish, precinct, quarter, region, section, sector, stomping ground, territory, turf*, vicinage, vicinity, ward |
| Main Entry: | esprit de corps |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group spirit |
Synonyms: |
camaraderie, common bond, communion, community, community of interests, cooperation, esprit, fellowship, group loyalty, group spirit, morale, solidarity, team morale, team spirit |
| Main Entry: | folk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's relations, acquaintances |
Synonyms: |
body politic, clan, community, confederation, culture group, ethnic group, family, general public, group, house, household, inhabitants, kin, kindred, lineage, masses, ménage, nation, nationality, people, population, proletariat, public, race, settlement, society, state, stock, tribe |