commune

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  1. intransitive verb To be in a state of intimate, heightened sensitivity and receptivity, as with one's surroundings: hikers communing with nature.
  2. intransitive verb To receive the Eucharist.
  3. noun A relatively small, often rural community whose members share common interests, work, and income and often own property collectively.
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  1. Middle English comunen, to have common dealings with, converse, from Old French communer, to make common, share (from commun, common; see common) and perhaps from Old French communier, to share in the Communion (from Late Latin commūnicāre, from Latin, to communicate; see communicate).
  2. French, independent municipality, from Old French comugne, from Medieval Latin commūnia, community, from neuter of Latin commūnis, common; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French communier (only in sense 2) (cf. Old French comunier, later the older English verb common, where the accent has regularly receded), from Latin communicare, share, impart, Late Latin also make common or base (Late Latin and Middle Latin also receive the communion), from communis, common: see common, v., and communicate.
  2. from commune, v.
  3. = Danish kommune, from French commune, from Middle Latin communa, communia, a community, territorial district: see common, adjective and n.
 

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