tight-knit community
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- noun
- /taɪt nɪt kəˈmjunɪti/
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comunidad unida
- New Haven used to have a pretty tight-knit community of booksellers.
- a very tight-knit community
- a small tight-knit community
- a really tight-knit community
There was no shops, there was no restaurants, there was no pubs and a very tight knit community.
- There was no shops, there was no restaurants, there was no pubs and a very tight knit community.
- And yeah, it's really a a tight knit community.
Examples
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The funeral was well-attended; the island, even now, is a tight-knit community, and Evan was particularly well-loved.
Fiction book (1995) -
The sisters waved to neighbors passing by and waxed nostalgic about their tight-knit community, which was founded by Irish immigrants more than a century ago.
Blog text (1) -
Seems like a pretty tight-knit community.
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The music scene here is a tight-knit community.
Blog text (1) -
And it is a tight-knit community at that.
Blog text (23) -
A respected member of our tight-knit community.
Blog text (16) -
We are a tight-knit community in Beaumont-Sur-Mer, mademoiselle.
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I feel really fortunate to have started there because, at the time, it was just an amazing place for punk rock and hardcore, a real tight-knit community.
Blog text (8) -
Peasants are subsistence farmers, and many live in tight-knit communities that encapsulate their social life.
Academic text (2005) -
Living in a small tight-knit community meant that everyone knew everyone else's business.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is transparently built from the adjective 'tight-knit' (closely united/supportive) plus 'community' (a group of people), so the overall meaning is a community that is closely connected. This adjective+noun composition follows a common, literal pattern found in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Tight-knit community comes from knitting: when threads are closely knit and pulled tight they make strong cloth that does not fall apart. So a tight-knit community means people who are closely 'connected' and who 'support' each other.