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Community

Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.

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Accord 76% connected

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

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Agreement 76% connected

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the mem…

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Assemblage 76% connected

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

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District 76% connected

Rigorous; stringent; harsh.

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Dominion 76% connected

Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.

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Gathering 76% connected

of Gather

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Group 76% connected

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of…

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Grouping 76% connected

of Group

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Ownership 76% connected

The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.

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People 76% connected

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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Territory 76% connected

A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.

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Circassian 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Circassia, in Asia.

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Convent 76% connected

A coming together; a meeting.

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Hamlet 76% connected

A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.

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Horde 76% connected

A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a…

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House 76% connected

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a d…

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Neighborhood 76% connected

The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.

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Neighbourhood 76% connected

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Parish 76% connected

That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.

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Settlement 76% connected

The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

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Suburb 76% connected

An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or…

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Uptown 76% connected

To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown.

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Village 76% connected

A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city.

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Warren 76% connected

A place privileged, by prescription or grant the king, for keeping certain animals (as hares, conies, partridges, pheasants, etc.) called beasts and…

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Communal 74% connected

Pertaining to a commune.

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Communal 74% connected

Pertaining to a commune.

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