What does community mean?
Word: Community
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Community means a group of people who live in the same place or share something, such as a language, a sport or a hobby.
Synonyms: neighbourhood
How do you spell community?
Syllables: com - mu - ni - ty
Tricky part: The m is doubled. Children often write comunity with only one.
Watch out for: comunity, communitty
Memory tip: A community is many people together, and two m's stand together at its start.
Community in a sentence
Example 1: Our housing community holds a sports day every year.
Example 2: The fishing community wakes up before sunrise.
Example 3: Everyone in the community helped to rebuild the school roof.
Fun Fact
Scientists also use the word for animals and plants: all the living things sharing a pond can be called a pond community.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) neighbour
b) gathring
c) village
d) market
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b) gathring. Gathering keeps the e of gather; the other three words are spelt correctly.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
community
a) scenery
b) history
c) society
d) harvest
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c) society. Society is also a word for people living together as a group.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
cmyitunmo
a) commodity
b) immunity
c) continuity
d) community
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d) community. Immunity has no c or o, commodity needs a d, and continuity needs a second n and t; community matches the nine letters.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
comm_n_ty
a) u, e
b) i, i
c) o, i
d) u, i
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d) u, i. Say com-mu-ni-ty: mu has a u and ni has an i.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which group is a community?
a) the families living in one village
b) three chairs in an empty room
c) a pile of books on a desk
d) the stars in the night sky
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a) the families living in one village
2. A community hall is a place where ____.
a) only one family can sleep
b) people from the area can meet
c) cars are taken for repair
d) trains stop to take water
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b) people from the area can meet
