communenoun詞源 1/ˈkɒmjuːn/

• 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.

  • The town of Chu-chou in Hunan Province, carrying out the great directive of Chairman Mao that "educated youths must go to the villages," has put into practice factory-commune links, and under the leadership of cadres, has made a collective settlement of educated youths in commune and brigade farms, forest areas, and tea plantations.
• 2

  A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).

• 3

  obsoleteThe commonalty; the common people.

• 4

  obsoleteCommunion; sympathetic conversation between friends.

  • For days of happy commune dead.
• 5

  historicalA self-governing city or league of citizens.

  • In 1117 the commune and archbishop had separate consuls at Milan.

communeverb詞源 2/kəˈmjuːn/

• 1

  To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.

  • I would commune with you of such things / That want no ear but yours.
• 2

  To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.

  • He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.
• 3

  ChristianityTo receive the communion.

  • Namely, in these things, in prohibiting that none should commune alone, in making the People whole Communers, or in suffering them to Commune under both kinds […]