A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living things) who have something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity. Communities often share a sense of place that is situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, town, or neighborhood) or in virtual space through communication platforms. Durable relations that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties also define a sense of community. People tend to define those social ties as important to their identity, practice, and roles in social institutions like family, home, work, government, society, or humanity, at large. Although communities are usually small relative to personal social ties (micro-level), "community" may also refer to large group affiliations (or macro-level), such as national communities, international communities, and virtual communities.

A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. Example: "Montreal's Italian community" Some synonyms: group, section, body, company, set, circle, clique, coterie, ring, band, faction; More the people of a district or country considered collectively, especially in the context of social values and responsibilities; society. Alternately: the community "preparing prisoners for life back in the community" Some synonyms: population, populace, people, citizenry, public, general public, body politic, collective

a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common or people having same culture and language are grouped as a community