Meaning of "commune" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COMMUNE

From Old French comuner to hold in common, from comuncommon.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF COMMUNE

commune  [kəˈmjuːn]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMMUNE

Commune is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb commune in English.

WHAT DOES COMMUNE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Commune

A commune is an intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources, and, in some communes, work and income. In addition to the communal economy, consensus decision-making, non-hierarchical structures and ecological living have become important core principles for many communes. Andrew Jacobs of The New York Times wrote that, contrary to popular misconceptions, "most communes of the '90s are not free-love refuges for flower children, but well-ordered, financially solvent cooperatives where pragmatics, not psychedelics, rule the day." There are many contemporary intentional communities all over the world, a list of which can be found at the Fellowship for Intentional Community. For the usually larger-scale, political entities in communist political theory, see socialist communes, which are similar but distinct social organizations.

Definition of commune in the English dictionary

The first definition of commune in the dictionary is to talk or converse intimately. Other definition of commune is to experience strong emotion or spiritual feelings. Commune is also intimate conversation; exchange of thoughts; communion.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO COMMUNE

PRESENT

Present

I commune

you commune

he/she/it communes

we commune

you commune

they commune

Present continuous

I am communing

you are communing

he/she/it is communing

we are communing

you are communing

they are communing

Present perfect

I have communed

you have communed

he/she/it has communed

we have communed

you have communed

they have communed

Present perfect continuous

I have been communing

you have been communing

he/she/it has been communing

we have been communing

you have been communing

they have been communing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I communed

you communed

he/she/it communed

we communed

you communed

they communed

Past continuous

I was communing

you were communing

he/she/it was communing

we were communing

you were communing

they were communing

Past perfect

I had communed

you had communed

he/she/it had communed

we had communed

you had communed

they had communed

Past perfect continuous

I had been communing

you had been communing

he/she/it had been communing

we had been communing

you had been communing

they had been communing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will commune

you will commune

he/she/it will commune

we will commune

you will commune

they will commune

Future continuous

I will be communing

you will be communing

he/she/it will be communing

we will be communing

you will be communing

they will be communing

Future perfect

I will have communed

you will have communed

he/she/it will have communed

we will have communed

you will have communed

they will have communed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been communing

you will have been communing

he/she/it will have been communing

we will have been communing

you will have been communing

they will have been communing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would commune

you would commune

he/she/it would commune

we would commune

you would commune

they would commune

Conditional continuous

I would be communing

you would be communing

he/she/it would be communing

we would be communing

you would be communing

they would be communing

Conditional perfect

I would have commune

you would have commune

he/she/it would have commune

we would have commune

you would have commune

they would have commune

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been communing

you would have been communing

he/she/it would have been communing

we would have been communing

you would have been communing

they would have been communing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you commune
we let´s commune
you commune

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to commune

Past participle

communed

Present Participle

communing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «COMMUNE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «commune» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of commune

collective · community · cooperative · kibbutz

TRANSLATION OF COMMUNE

Find out the translation of commune to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of commune from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «commune» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 群居团体
• Translator English - Spanish: comuna
• English: commune
• Translator English - Hindi: कम्यून
• Translator English - Arabic: البلدية
• Translator English - Russian: коммуна
• Translator English - Portuguese: comuna
• Translator English - Bengali: প্রজাসভা
• Translator English - French: communauté
• Translator English - Malay: Komune
• Translator English - German: Kommune
• Translator English - Japanese: 生活共同体
• Translator English - Korean: 공동 생활체
• Translator English - Javanese: Komune
• Translator English - Vietnamese: xã
• Translator English - Tamil: கம்யூனில்
• Translator English - Marathi: कम्यून
• Translator English - Turkish: komün
• Translator English - Italian: comune
• Translator English - Polish: gmina
• Translator English - Ukrainian: комуна
• Translator English - Romanian: comuna
• Translator English - Greek: κοινότητα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: kommune
• Translator English - Swedish: kommun
• Translator English - Norwegian: commune

10 QUOTES WITH «COMMUNE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word commune.

1

Patricia Arquette

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

2

Libba Bray

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.

3

Chelsea Cain

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

4

Oona Chaplin

My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.

5

Ben Daniels

The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It's like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.

6

Fred Davis

Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby.

7

Kathryn Hahn

And then 'Wanderlust,' Ken Marino and David Wain wrote the funniest - they're amazing. That was one of my most favorite creative experiences; we're all up at that commune, a small group of people. Everyone was funnier than the next. It was an amazing ensemble feeling. Everyone gave and took in the best way.

8

Kristin Hersh

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

9

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.

10

Mary Karr

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMMUNE»

Discover the use of commune in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to commune and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy

This comprehensive history--based in primary source accounts--of worker's control in Paris considers historic and contemporary debates on the Commune's legacy

Donny Gluckstein, 2014

Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune

This book analyzes the representations of women who were part of the insurrection known as the Paris Commune. the uprising and its bloody suppression by the French army is still one of the most hotly debated episodes in modern history.

Gay L. Gullickson, 1996

The Ephrata Commune: An Early American Counterculture

Tells of the founding and subsequent history of Ephrata, a mystical religious community that flourished in eastern Pennsylvania in the mid-eighteenth century.

Everett Gordon Alderfer, 1985

The ius commune in England : Four Studies: Four Studies

This study addresses the ius commune's relation to and influence on English law.

R. H. Helmholz Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law University of Chicago, 2001

Writings on the Paris Commune

Both communists and anarchists claimed the Commune for their own. This volume includes essays on the Paris Commune by Karl Marx, Freidrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, and Vladimir Lenin.

Karl Marx, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Pëtr A. Kropotkin, 2008

The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula

This book concerns the transformation of Roman legal rules into the "common law" of Western Europe between 1100 and 1400.

John W. Cairns, Paul J. du Plessis, 2010

From Appomattox to Montmartre: Americans and the Paris Commune

The American Civil War and the Paris Commune of 1871, Philip Katz argues, were part of the broader sweep of transatlantic development in the mid-nineteenth century--an age of democratic civil wars.

Philip Mark Katz, 1998

The Paris Commune, 1871

The Paris Commune was the biggest and last popular revolution in western Europe, ending the cycle of revolutions that started in 1789. This volume provides a comprehensive synthesis of the flood of recent research on the Paris Commune.

Robert Tombs, 1999

Kingdom to Commune: Protestant Pacifist Culture between ...

The book begins and ends with biographical profiles of two very different pacifists, Harold Gray and Marjorie Swann. Their stories distill the changing religious culture of American pacifism revealed in Kingdom to Commune.

Patricia Faith Appelbaum, 2009

The Italian City-State : From Commune to Signoria: From ...

This book examines the origins and nature of this phenomenon from the fall of Rome to the eve of its consummation, the Italian Renaissance.

Philip Jones, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMMUNE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term commune is used in the context of the following news items.

This week in house porn: The Hobbit's forever home, creating a …

And when that isn't enough, create a commune so strangers can live with you and help finance your project? One man in England did — and ... «National Post, Jul 15»

The great rosé revival

... noir grown in “caillottes,” the crumbly marl and limestone soil so favored for reds in this picturesque commune on the middle Loire River. «The Register-Guard, Jul 15»

Patrick Njoroge: Kenya's new Central Bank governor turns down …

... lately of the International Monetary Fund, will lead an almost monastic existence in an Opus Dei religious commune in Nairobi, throwing into ... «The Independent, Jul 15»

Garden commune files suit against Arlington, narcotics detective …

The owner of a Kennedale sustainable community and four others filed a lawsuit last week alleging the City of Arlington and Arlington police ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»

The cult of my childhood: Across three continents, life was a …

We didn't believe in owning property or setting down roots, so rarely did anyone stay in one place for long, even if the commune itself lasted for ... «Salon, Jul 15»

Commune tenants win backing in dispute with landlord that's …

THE Town Hall has taken steps to save a community of 18 tenants threatened with eviction from their co-housing project in Barnsbury. «Islington Tribune newspaper website, Jul 15»

The Oven imagines a dismal future on a desert commune

They land on a desert commune where people farm and cook just after sunrise and engage in humorous but charged dialogue about how the ... «Chicago Reader, Jul 15»

Six Places to Commune With Nature

Whether you're seeking revenge against the jaguar shark that ate your partner Esteban or simply trying to find some natural beauty, there are ... «Charleston City Paper, Jul 15»

Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation puts Anna's village …

Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation puts Anna's village, Amte's commune on tourist circuit. NYOOOZ · Pune; Wed,01 Jul 2015. Maharashtra Tourism ... «NYOOOZ, Jul 15»

Court Charges CPP Commune Chief With Corruption

Hai Sin, a CPP commune chief from Koh Kong province's Sre Ambel district who was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Saturday, ... «The Cambodia Daily, Jul 15»