Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Familiar interchange of ideas or sentiments: communion; intercourse; friendly conversation.
- To converse; talk together familiarly; impart ideas and sentiments mutually; intérchange thoughts or feelings.
- To partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper; receive the communion: a common use of the word in America and in Wales.
- To cause to partake of the eucharist.
- noun A Middle English form of
common . - noun In general, a community organized for the protection and promotion of local interests, and subordinate to the state; the government or governing body of such a community.
- noun Specifically The smallest administrative division of France, governed in its local affairs by a mayor and municipal council; a municipality or township.
- noun The people or body of citizens of a commune.
- noun In Russia, the community of peasants in a village. See
mir . - noun A committee or body of communalists who in 1871 ruled over Paris for a brief period after the retirement of the German troops, but were suppressed, after severe fighting and much damage to the city, by troops under the authority of the National Assembly of France. See
communalism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends.
- intransitive verb To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
- intransitive verb To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper.
- intransitive verb to think; to reflect; to meditate.
- noun obsolete The commonalty; the common people.
- noun A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See
Arrondissement . - noun Absolute municipal self-government.
- noun a group of people living together as an organized community and owning in common most or all of their property and possessions, and sharing work, income, and many other aspects of daily life. Such sommunities are oftten organized based on religious or idealistic principles, and they sometimes have unconventional lifestyles, practises, or moral codes.
- noun The revolutionary government, modeled on the commune of 1792, which the communists, so called, attempted to establish in 1871.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
community , oftenrural , whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community. - noun A
local political division in manyEuropean countries. - noun obsolete The
commonalty ; the common people. - verb intransitive, followed by with To be together with; to
contemplate orabsorb .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity
- noun the smallest administrative district of several European countries
- verb receive Communion, in the Catholic church
- noun a body of people or families living together and sharing everything
Etymologies
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Examples
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Have I not forced them to give up what they called their commune, for the whole duration of my life? '
Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. Charles Morris 1877
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Have I not forced them to give up what they called their commune, for the whole duration of my life? '
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830
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Next he and Joe Stanley will once again commune on their beloved NAMBLA website and dream of little boys.
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It was called a commune by journalists, but in reality was far from that.
In the Frame Helen Mirren 2007
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It was called a commune by journalists, but in reality was far from that.
In the Frame Helen Mirren 2007
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The new bishop thought that the establishment of a commune sworn to by both the rival parties might become a sort of compact of alliance between them, and he set about realizing this noble idea before the word commune had served at Noyon as the rallying cry of popular insurrection.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830
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Pro feris, quas cura hominum non aluit, sed Deus in commune mortalibus ad utendum concessit, pauperes a potentioribus spoliantur, flagellantur, ergastulis detruduntur, et multa alia patiuntur.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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As for Vernon (Koresh) not being a viable target outside the commune, that is bull.
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As readers will know, B-BBC is an anarcho-syndicalist commune aka a broad church, and some of my fellow contributors - like David, above - are firmly of the opinion that the Corporation should be abolished and 'the market decide'.
Archive 2009-08-28 2009
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"I do not know about Europe, with its own traditions and concepts, but I feel that, for Asia, the commune is a real discovery ..."
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