Usually means: Shared living; collective resources management.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word commune:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. commune: Merriam-Webster
  2. commune, commune, the Commune: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commune, commune: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. commune: Collins English Dictionary
  5. commune: Vocabulary.com
  6. Commune, commune: Wordnik
  7. commune: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. commune: Wiktionary
  9. commune: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. commune: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. commune: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Commune, commune, the commune: Dictionary.com
  13. commune (n.), commune (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. commune: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Commune (Vietnam), Commune (administrative division), Commune (album), Commune (card game), Commune (country subdivision), Commune (disambiguation), Commune (documentary), Commune (film), Commune (intentional community), Commune (model of government), Commune (socialism), Commune (subnational entity), Commune, The Commune: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Commune: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. commune: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. commune: Rhymezone
  19. commune, commune (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. commune: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. commune, the commune: FreeDictionary.org
  22. commune: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. commune: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. commune: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Commune (administrative division), Commune (country subdivision), Commune (subdivision), Commune (subnational entity), commune: Legal dictionary
  2. Commune (administrative division), Commune (country subdivision), Commune (subdivision), Commune (subnational entity): Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Commune (administrative division), Commune (country subdivision), Commune (subdivision), Commune (subnational entity), commune: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commune: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. commune: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. commune: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

(Note: See communed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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.
noun:  A local political division in Chile, Vietnam, and many European countries.
noun:  (obsolete) The commonalty; the common people.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends.
noun:  (historical) A self-governing city or league of citizens.
verb:  To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
verb:  (intransitive, followed by with) To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
verb:  (Christianity, intransitive) To receive the communion.

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