The body of citizens or inhabitants of a town or borough; the people of a nation, state, city, etc., considered collectively. Cf. commonality, n. 1a…
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| 释义 | society > society and the community > [noun] (85) commonaltyc1300 The body of citizens or inhabitants of a town or borough; the people of a nation, state, city, etc., considered collectively. Cf. commonality, n. 1a… commonweal?a1400 The people of a nation, state, etc., as a whole; a state, nation, or independent community, esp. viewed as an entity in which the whole population… commonality?c1400 The body of citizens or inhabitants of a town or borough; the people of a nation, state, city, etc., considered collectively; = commonalty, n. 1a. Obs… commonwealth1445 The people of a nation, state, etc., as a whole; a state, nation, or independent community, esp. viewed as an entity in which the whole… weal-public1495 The general good of the community; public welfare or interest. Hence, the state or body politic. weal1513 Hence, a state, community; = commonweal, n. 1 ? Obsolete. society1566 The aggregate of persons living together in a community, esp. one having shared customs, laws, and institutions. Cf. sense 9a. public1621 With the and singular or plural agreement. The community or people as a whole; the members of the community collectively. leviathan1651 Used by Hobbes for: The organism of political society, the commonwealth. (See quot. 1651.) community1737 With definite article. The civic body to which all belong; the public; society. general public1854 the community or people in general, usually in contrast to a specific group; = public, n. 1b. collectivity1881 The collective body of people forming a community or state. (le) tout Paris1894 All. (le) tout Paris/lə tu pari/, all Paris, i.e. Parisian society; also transferred, of other cities, social circles, etc. John Q.1922 With following word used as if a surname: (a name given to) a hypothetical ordinary or average person of the specified type or associated with the… Joe Citizen1932 (a name for) a hypothetical average person; (also) the general public collectively; cf. John Q., n. 2. Subcategories:— origin and development of (2) — individual as unit of (2) — fact of belonging to or affecting (1) — a division of human society (10) — an organized social structure (4) — a community (20) — social group (28) — faculty of being admitted or acceptability (1) — action of receiving or fact of being received (1) — entering into society (1) |
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