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Noun: commune  'kóm,yoon
  1. The smallest administrative district of several European countries
     
  2. A body of people or families living together and sharing everything
Verb: commune  'kóm,yoon
  1. Communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity
    "He seemed to commune with nature"
     
  2. Receive Communion, in the Catholic church
    - communicate

Derived forms: communing, communed, communes

Type of: administrative district, administrative division, assemblage, communicate, covenant, gathering, intercommunicate, territorial division

Encyclopedia: Commune