communityn.[L. communitas: cf. OF. communit. Cf. Commonalty, and see Common.]1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.()The original community of all things. (Locke.)An unreserved community of thought and feeling. (W. Irving.)2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests.()Creatures that in communities exist. (Wordsworth.)3. Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general.()Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community. (Hallam.)()4. Common character; likeness.()The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. (H. Spencer.)5. Commonness; frequency.()Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. (Shak.)