commune
nounEtymology
From Middle English commune, comune, from Old French comune, commune, from Medieval Latin commūnia, from Latin commūne (“community, state”), from commūnis (“common”). Doublet of comune. See also community, communion, common.
Definitions
A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in…
A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies…
A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).
The commonalty
The commonalty; the common people.
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Communion
Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends.
- For days of happy commune dead.
A self-governing city or league of citizens.
- In 1117 the commune and archbishop had separate consuls at Milan.
To converse together with sympathy and confidence
To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
- I would commune with you of such things / That want no ear but yours.
To communicate (with) spiritually
To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
- He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.
To receive the communion.
- Namely, in these things, in prohibiting that none should commune alone, in making the People whole Communers, or in suffering them to Commune under both kinds […]
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA