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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

社区

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shèqū

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Community/kəˈmjuː.nə.ti/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #140 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这个社区非常团结。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

    "He's well known throughout the local community."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old French communité, which comes from the Latin communitatem, meaning 'fellowship' or 'community of relations'. This stems from communis, meaning 'common, public, shared by all', combining com- ('together') and munus ('duty, obligation, gift'). Over centuries, the term evolved from denoting shared fellowship to encompassing specific geographical localities and social groups.

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