commune

8 definitions • 5 examples

a group of families or single people who live and work together sharing possessions and responsibilities:

join a commune She left her husband to join a women's commune.

in some countries, a unit of local government

to get very close to someone or something by exchanging feelings or thoughts:

commune with Lying naked in the grass, among the trees and birds, he felt he was communing with nature.

the smallest unit of local government in some countries

A commune is also a group of people who live and work together and share responsibilities.

in some countries, a unit of local government:

In Italy, the commune is the basic administrative division of both provinces and regions.

a group of people who live and work together on land that is owned by the state, giving what they produce to the state:

While the commune system is no longer common in China, knowledge of what it entailed is essential for an understanding of the country today.

a group of people who live and work together, sharing possessions and responsibilities:

In the 1960s they lived in a hippy commune in California.