TIGHT-KNIT


Meaning of TIGHT-KNIT in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a close/close-knit/tight-knit community (= where all the people know each other )

I live in a close-knit community where there's lots of support.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Filipinos have established a tight-knit community in the city.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But, although the core of this group was quite small and tight-knit , the influence of their ideas was widely felt.

The tight-knit mining communities had their own traditions and tales, and in Ayrshire one miner's name was a legend.

The Cajuns are a very tight-knit and family-orientated community.

The management and the team grew together into, in the early stages, a tight-knit organisation.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.