commune

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commune1 /ˈkɒmjuːn/

▶noun

• 1 a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities.

  ■ a communal settlement in a communist country.

• 2 the smallest French territorial division for administrative purposes.

• 3 (the Commune) the group which seized the municipal government of Paris in the French Revolution and played a leading part in the Terror.

  ■ the municipal government organized on communalistic principles elected in Paris in 1871.

– origin C17: from Fr., from med. L. communia, neut. pl. of L. communis (see common).

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commune2 /kəˈmjuːn/

▶verb (commune with) share one's intimate thoughts or feelings with.

■ feel in close spiritual contact with.

– origin ME: from OFr. comuner ‘to share’, from comun (see common).