COMMUNITY, n.
1. Properly, common possession or enjoyment; as a community of goods.
It is a confirmation of the original community of all things.
2. A society of people, having common rights and privileges, or common interests, civil, political or ecclesiastical; or living under the same laws and regulations. This word may signify a commonwealth or state, a body politic, or a particular society or order of men within a state, as a community of monks; and it is often used for the public or people in general, without very definite limits.
3. Commonness; frequency.
