Meaning of Commune | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
   countable, uncountable
2. Either of the French revolutionary governments (of 1792 or of 1871)
3. A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).
   countable, uncountable
4. The commonalty; the common people.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
5. Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends.
   obsolete, uncountable
6. A self-governing city or league of citizens.
   countable, historical, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“For days of happy commune dead.”

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

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