An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
COMMUNITY
community, biotic community
(noun) (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
community
(noun) a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common; “he was well known throughout the Catholic community”; “the news spread rapidly through the medical community”; “they formed a community of scientists”
community
(noun) a group of people living in a particular local area; “the team is drawn from all parts of the community”
community
(noun) a group of nations having common interests; “they hoped to join the NATO community”
community
(noun) common ownership; “they shared a community of possessions”
community, community of interests
(noun) agreement as to goals; “the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
community (countable and uncountable, plural communities)
(countable) A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition.
(countable) A residential or religious collective; a commune.
(countable, ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
(countable, Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
(uncountable) The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
(countable, obsolete) Common enjoyment or possession; participation.
(uncountable, obsolete) Common character; likeness.
(uncountable, obsolete) Commonness; frequency.
Antonyms
• anticommunity
• noncommunity
Hyponyms
• subcommunity
Source: Wiktionary
Com*mu"ni*ty, n.; pl. Communities. Etym: [L. communitas: cf. OF. communité. 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. Irwing.
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.
Note: In this sense, the term should be used with the definite article; as, the interests of the community.
4. Common character; likeness. [R.] The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. H. Spencer.
5. Commonness; frequency. [Obs.] Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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