English Explanatory Dictionary

communicate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To impart.
  2. To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
  3. To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
  4. To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
  5. To share
  6. To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.
  7. To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
  8. To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
  9. To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
  10. To be connected by means of an opening or channel [with with ‘another room, vessel etc.’].
adj
  1. Communicated, (made) commune, joined.

Pronunciation

/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/ En-us-communicate.ogg

Word forms

communicate communicates communicating communicated no-table-tags glossary communicatest communicatedst communicateth more communicate most communicate

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of Latin commūnicāt- (past participial stem of commūnicō (“share, impart; make common”)) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from commūnis (“common”) + -icō. Compare French communiquer and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, communique.

Synonyms

articulate common communicate convey express make known outspeak portray put utter

Related words

communication communion excommunicate incommunicado

Derived words

communicatable communicatee communicatingly communicator incommunicated incommunicating intercommunicate miscommunicate noncommunicating overcommunicate recommunicate telecommunicate uncommunicated uncommunicating
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