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community - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | community |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | society, area of people |
| Synonyms: | association, body politic, center, colony, commonwealth, company, district, hamlet, nation, neck of the woods, neighborhood, people, populace, public, society, state, territory, turf, commonality, general public, locality, residents, stomping ground |
| 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, confederacy, coterie, fellowship, fraternity, guild, kinship, league, society, union, comradeship |
| Antonyms: | sisterhood |
| Main Entry: | communal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | collective; shared |
| Synonyms: | common, community, cooperative, general, joint, mutual, neighborhood, public, communistic, conjoint, conjunct, intermutual |
| Antonyms: | individual, personal, private, unshared |
| Main Entry: | commune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group living together |
| Synonyms: | collective, community, cooperative, family, kibbutz, municipality, neighborhood, rank and file, village, commonage, commonality |
| Main Entry: | district |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | geographical area |
| Synonyms: | commune, community, department, locale, neck of the woods, neighborhood, parcel, parish, precinct, quarter, region, section, sector, territory, turf*, vicinity, ward, locality, stomping ground, vicinage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | esprit de corps |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group spirit |
| Synonyms: | camaraderie, communion, community, cooperation, esprit, fellowship, morale, solidarity, common bond, community of interests, group loyalty, group spirit, team morale, team spirit |
| Main Entry: | folk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's relations, acquaintances |
| Synonyms: | body politic, clan, community, family, group, house, household, kin, kindred, lineage, masses, nation, nationality, people, population, proletariat, public, race, settlement, society, state, stock, tribe, confederation, culture group, ethnic group, general public, inhabitants, ménage |
| Main Entry: | hamlet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small village |
| Synonyms: | community, crossroads, district, suburb, small town |
| Main Entry: | humankind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the human race |
| Synonyms: | community, flesh, humanity, mortality, people, populace, society, Homo sapiens, human beings, human species, mortals |
| Main Entry: | municipal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning cities |
| Synonyms: | borough, city, civic, civil, community, corporate, domestic, home, incorporated, internal, local, metropolitan, native, public, town, urban, burghal |
| Antonyms: | country, suburban |
| Main Entry: | municipality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | city |
| Synonyms: | borough, community, district, metropolis, precinct, town, village, township |
| Main Entry: | nation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | country with its own government |
| Synonyms: | body politic, commonwealth, community, democracy, domain, dominion, empire, land, monarchy, people, populace, population, public, race, realm, republic, society, sovereignty, state, tribe, union, principality |
| 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: | nationality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place of birth |
| Synonyms: | allegiance, body politic, community, country, nation, native land, origin, race, society, citizenship, ethnic group, political home |
| Main Entry: | newspaper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regular, continuous publication containing information |
| Synonyms: | biweekly, community, daily, extra, gazette, journal, magazine, metropolitan, organ, paper, periodical, press, rag*, record, review, scandal sheet*, sheet, tabloid, trade, bulldog, weekly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | congregation of a church |
| Synonyms: | church, community, flock*, fold*, territory, archdiocese, bethel, churchgoers, parishioners |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | partnership |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alliance; participation |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, assistance, association, band, body, brotherhood, business, cahoots*, cartel, clique, club, combination, combine, community, companionship, company, conglomerate, conjunction, connection, cooperation, cooperative, corporation, coterie, crew, faction, firm, fraternity, friendship, gang, help, house, interest, lodge, mob, organization, ownership, party, ring, sharing, sisterhood, society, sorority, togetherness, union, chumminess, consociation, hookup, joining, tie-up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | people |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human beings |
| Synonyms: | body politic, bourgeois, clan, common people, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, herd, hoi polloi*, horde, humanity, humankind, kin, masses, mob, multitude, nation, nationality, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file*, riffraff*, society, tribe, John/Jane Q. Public, bodies, cats, citizens, commonality, general public, heads, human race, humans, inhabitants, mortals, person in the street, persons, plebeians |
| Antonyms: | animals, plants |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | population |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inhabitants of a place |
| Synonyms: | community, culture, folk, people, populace, public, society, state, citizenry, denizens, dwellers, natives, residents |
| Main Entry: | precinct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | subdivision |
| Synonyms: | area, community, department, development, district, division, neighborhood, province, quarter, section, tract, ward, zone |
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