commune

About 3.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. 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.
2. noun A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).
3. noun The commonalty; the common people.
4. noun Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends.
5. noun A self-governing city or league of citizens.
6. verb To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
7. verb To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.

   He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.

8. verb To receive the communion.

Similar words

communicate communal district community municipality municipal borough joint local town

Often followed by

with of and in was members is to had

Word family

communed communes communing