commune

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• The commonalty; the common people.
• Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends.

Verb

• To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
• To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
• To receive the communion.

Origin

• From Middle English commune, comune, from Old French comune, commune, from Medieval Latin commūnia, from Latin commūne, from commūnis. See also community, communion, common.
• From Middle English communen, comunen, from Old French comunier, communier, from Latin commūnico. communicate.