sense of community
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandcommunity
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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community
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/kəˈmjuː.nə.ti/us/kəˈmjuː.nə.t̬i/
the people living in one particular area or people who are considered as a unit because of their common interests, social group, ...
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(Definition ofsenseandcommunityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsense of community
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An inwardsenseofcommunity, the attachment to a place, is key.
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They fostered a strongsenseofcommunity, and of belonging to some particular group.
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But do they feel a 'senseofcommunity' expressed in a 'cooperative identity'?
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The irony is that the school is a product of this larger focus, thissenseofcommunity, both of which the suburbanite wishes to buy.
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Thissenseofcommunityhas been fostered officially by the hospital management who have recently expanded the music scheme to other wards across the hospital.
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The first question is about the general sense of trust and the second question is about goodwill or volunteerism orsenseofcommunity.
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Thesenseofcommunitylearnt from the mundane environment made the ideology of the wider clan community knowable.
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More and more research, often quite theoretical, suggests that we must raise thesenseofcommunityto achieve improvements in the quality of life.
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They projected asenseofcommunityand were aware of the other users.
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They were conscious of the importance of social contacts and of thesenseofcommunityand explicitly related them to a sense of thriving.
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Policy makers should express an increasedsenseofcommunitycommitment to export controls.
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A range of strategies is used to generate asenseofcommunityand familiarity between the audience and cast.
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The developing market of the how-to text put lone women gardeners in touch with one another and created asenseofcommunityspanning geographical regions.
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These former soldiers had a strongsenseofcommunityas part of parliament's northern army, a close-knit and cohesive army compared with other parliamentarian forces.
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Interestingly, the 'senseofcommunity' score only attained statistical significance before the social network indicators were introduced.
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Ritualised parish boundary processions to define the spatial limits of a community's territory forged asenseofcommunityas socially-galvanising collective assertions of parochial identity.
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