commune

Meanings

1. 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.
2. A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).
3. The commonalty; the common people.
4. Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends.
5. A self-governing city or league of citizens.

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

Etymology

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.