(communities)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
The ~ is all the people who live in a particular area or place.
He’s well liked by people in the ~...
The growth of such vigilante gangs has worried ~ leaders, police and politicians.
N-SING-COLL: usu the N
2.
A particular ~ is a group of people who are similar in some way.
The police haven’t really done anything for the black ~ in particular.
...the business ~.
N-COUNT-COLL: usu supp N
3.
Community is friendship between different people or groups, and a sense of having something in common.
Two of our greatest strengths are diversity and ~.
N-UNCOUNT