subcommunityn.

1839 Boston Q. Rev. Oct. 415 The community should be so divided into sub-communities, that the power should in fact affect but a small number.

1896 Dial. Notes (Amer. Dial. Soc.) 1 296 We may properly speak of the dialect of a trade or profession, of the dialects of different classes in the same community (if they form what may be called sub-communities), or of individuals.

1921 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 27 151 Subcommunities of another type, due to the difference of population selection, form around any important center, such as a university, park, school, or other public institution.

1974 Guardian 14 Aug. 15/1 The foreigners tend to take refuge in tight little ethnic subcommunities made up exclusively of their own people.

2009 M. A. Maun Biol. Coastal Sand Dunes vi. 94/2 Five species were common to all four subcommunities, seven to three subcommunities and 12 to two subcommunities.