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Commune

Commune Meaning & Definition
Commune Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Commune?

[n] a body of people or families living together and sharing everything
[n] the smallest administrative district of several European countries (Belgium and France and Italy and Switzerland)
[v] communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity; "He seemed to commune with nature"
[v] receive Communion, in the Catholic church

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Related Terms | Find terms related to Commune: archbishopric | archdiocese | arrondissement | ashram | bailiwick | bishopric | body | borough | canton | caste | city | clan | class | colony | commonage | commoners | commonwealth | community | congressional district | constablewick | county | departement | diocese | district | duchy | economic class | electoral district | electorate | endogamous group | extended family | family | gens | government | hamlet | hundred | kinship group | Kreis | magistracy | metropolis | metropolitan area | moiety | nuclear family | oblast | okrug | order | parish | people | phratria | phratry | phyle | plebeians | plebes | populace | precinct | principality | province | rank and file | region | riding | settlement | sheriffalty | sheriffwick | shire | shrievalty | social class | society | soke | stake | state | subcaste | territory | third estate | totem | town | township | village | wapentake | ward

See Also | administrative district | administrative division | assemblage | communicate | covenant | gathering | intercommunicate | pray | territorial division

Commune In Webster's Dictionary

\Com*mune"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Communed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Communing}.] [OF. communier, fr. L. communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See {Common}, and cf. {Communicate}.] 1. 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. --Shak. 2. To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper. To commune under both kinds. --Bp. Burnet. {To commune with one's self} or {one's heart}, to think; to reflect; to meditate.
\Com"mune\, n. Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends. For days of happy commune dead. --Tennyson.
\Com"mune\, n. [F., fr. commun. See {Common}.] 1. The commonalty; the common people. [Obs.] --Chaucer. In this struggle -- to use the technical words of the time -- of the ``commune'', the general mass of the inhabitants, against the ``prudhommes'' or ``wiser'' few. --J. R. Green. 2. 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}. 3. Absolute municipal self-government. {The Commune of Paris}, or {The Commune} (a) The government established in Paris (1792-94) by a usurpation of supreme power on the part of representatives chosen by the communes; the period of its continuance is known as the ``Reign of Terror.'' (b) The revolutionary government, modeled on the commune of 1792, which the communists, so called, attempted to establish in 1871.

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