Commune

Quick meaning: Commune is a noun meaning A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).

Meaning

A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, obsolete) Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends.
2. To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
3. (intransitive, followed by with) To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
4. (Christianity, intransitive) To receive the communion.
5. 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.
6. (obsolete) The commonalty; the common people.
7. (historical) A self-governing city or league of citizens.

Example Sentences

For days of happy commune dead.

He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.

In 1117 the commune and archbishop had separate consuls at Milan.

I would commune with you of such things / That want no ear but yours.

Word Forms

• communes
• communing
• communed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include communal, district, community, municipality, municipal, borough.

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