commune
/ˈkɑmjuːn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.30 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).
Countable; Uncountable
verb
To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
verb
To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The town of Chu-chou in Hunan Province, carrying out the great directive of Chairman Mao that "educated youths must go to the villages," has put into practice factory-commune links, and under the leadership of cadres, has made a collective settlement of educated youths in commune and brigade farms, forest areas, and tea plantations."
- "For days of happy commune dead."
- "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."
- "He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature."
- "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 […]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɑmjuːn/
- British English: /ˈkɒmjuːn/