community
part of speech
noun (community, communities)
meaning for a pupil
1) A community is all the people who live in one place, such as a town or neighbourhood. tree →
2) A community is a group of people who share something, like a religion, a hobby or a language. tree →
3) In science a community is all the living things that live together in one habitat. tree →
sense in the lessons
In PSHE and geography lessons pupils learn about their local community and the people who help it (firefighters, doctors, librarians). Schools do community projects like litter picks. In science a pond community includes plants, frogs and insects. Phrases: local community, community centre, part of the community, school community, community service.
examples
- Our school is part of the local community. tree →
- The community centre has a library. tree →
- We helped the community by picking up litter. tree →
- There is a big Irish community in Boston. tree →
- Everyone in the community came to the fair. tree →
- Police officers help keep the community safe. tree →
- A pond is home to a community of living things. tree →
- The Soldier received the thanks of the whole community. tree →
note
Plural: communities. Spelling: double «m» (com-mu-ni-ty). Countable noun. A community is about people or living things together, not just buildings.
In the corpora
- "A retirement community" is a housing estate built for old people.
- Later that term a community police officer came to Jake's school to talk about staying safe and street fights.
- Community police officers visit schools to help children stay safe, not only to catch people.
- Community police officers help keep neighbourhoods safe and often get to know local children.
- It's help from the community, not a shame, and the kind thing is never to tell others who you saw there.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «community» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.