Commune

Pronunciation

• RP enPR: kŏm'yoÍžon, IPA: /ˈkÉ’mjuːn/
• US enPR: käm'yoÍžon, IPA: /ˈkÉ‘mjuːn/

From French commune, in turn deriving from Latin.

Noun

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.
3. (obsolete) The commonalty; the common people.
4. (obsolete) communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends
• TennysonFor days of happy commune dead.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kÉ™myoÍžon', IPA: /kəˈmjuːn/

From Old French comuner ("to share").

Full definition of commune

Verb

1. To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
• ShakespeareI would commune with you of such things
  That want no ear but yours.
2. (intransitive, followed by with) To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.
3. To receive the communion.
• Bishop BurnetTo commune under both kinds.----