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commune 1 Noun 1. a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities 2. the smallest district of local government in Belgium, France, Italy, and Switzerland [Latin communia things held in common] commune 2 Verb [-muning, -muned] commune with a. to experience strong emotion for: communing with nature b. to talk intimately with [Old French comuner to hold in common] Commune a body of the commons; a group forming an interim government. e.g., in Paris in 1794 and 1781; a group living together in a common community. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
commune Translationsvi [kəˈmjuːn]: to commune with → comunicarse con vi [kəˈmjuːn] n → Kommune f |
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| So I promised to leave the cretin in peace in his dwelling, with the understanding that he should live quite by himself, and that the remaining families in the village should cross the stream and come to live in the town, in some new houses which I myself undertook to build, adding to each house a piece of ground for which the Commune was to repay me later on. This George Milford was an obscure agitator about whom nothing is known, save the one additional bit of information gained from the Manuscript, which mentions that he was shot in the Chicago Commune. The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois. |
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