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| commune | |
| 1. n. 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. |  |
| 2. n. A local political division in many European countries. | |
| 3. n. (obsolete) The commonalty; the common people. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends | |
| 5. v. To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive, followed by with) To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb. | |
| He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature. | |
| 7. v. (Christianity, intransitive) To receive the communion. | |
