tight-knit community
Closely bonded neighborhood
A tight-knit community is a group whose members share close bonds and look out for one another.
The metaphor comes from fabric—tightly knit material has no gaps.
Such communities may be geographic (a small town), cultural (an immigrant neighborhood), or interest-based (a church congregation).
She grew up in a tight-knit community where everyone knew everyone's business.
- friendshipBond of mutual affection
- family unitRelatives cohabiting together
- extended familyRelatives beyond parents, siblings
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
- neighborhoodResidential area nearby
block party · town square · local church · trust · tradition · mutual aid · helping hands · support system · loyalty · interdependence · reciprocity · belongingness · small town · village · rootedness · cohesion · enclave · solidarity
- small townssmall town, hamlet, town, village, settlement
- Small-Town Lifegeneral store, town square, front porch, church steeple, water tower
- blue collarhard hat, blue collar, blue-collar jobs, factory work, manual labor
tight-knit communityfaceless crowd
bedroom community · anomie · social isolation · commuter suburb · dormitory town
tight, tightly, tightness, tighten, tightened, tightening, tighter, tightest, knitted