commune

IPA: kˈɑmjun

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.
A local political division in many European countries.
(obsolete) The commonalty; the common people.
(uncountable, obsolete) Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends.
(historical) A self-governing city or league of citizens.

To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
(intransitive, followed by with) To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
(Christianity, intransitive) To receive the communion.

Examples of "commune" in Sentences

It was called a commune by journalists, but in reality was far from that.
As for Vernon (Koresh) not being a viable target outside the commune, that is bull.
Have I not forced them to give up what they called their commune, for the whole duration of my life? '
Next he and Joe Stanley will once again commune on their beloved NAMBLA website and dream of little boys.
"I do not know about Europe, with its own traditions and concepts, but I feel that, for Asia, the commune is a real discovery ..."
Pro feris, quas cura hominum non aluit, sed Deus in commune mortalibus ad utendum concessit, pauperes a potentioribus spoliantur, flagellantur, ergastulis detruduntur, et multa alia patiuntur.
As readers will know, B-BBC is an anarcho-syndicalist commune aka a broad church, and some of my fellow contributors - like David, above - are firmly of the opinion that the Corporation should be abolished and 'the market decide'.
The new bishop thought that the establishment of a commune sworn to by both the rival parties might become a sort of compact of alliance between them, and he set about realizing this noble idea before the word commune had served at Noyon as the rallying cry of popular insurrection.