Look up: Commune

1. commune
   [n] - the smallest administrative district of several European countries (Belgium and France and Italy and Switzerland) 2. [n] - a body of people or families living together and sharing everything 3. [v] - receive Communion, in the Catholic church 4. [v] - communicate intimately with
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2. commune
   Group of people or families living together, sharing resources and responsibilities. There have been various kinds of commune through the ages, including a body of burghers or burgesses in medieval...
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3. commune
   the smallest administration division in France,Italy etc.governed by a mayor assisted by a municipal council Category: Politics • A public body made up of citizens,economically and politically self-sufficient and the autonomy of which is validated by the decentralized structure of the Swiss state. Category: The cosmos
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4. Commune
   Com·mune' intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Communed ; present participle & verbal noun Communing .] [ Old French communier , from Latin communicare to communi...
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5. Commune
   Com'mune noun Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends. « For days of happy commune dead. Tennyson. »
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6. Commune
   Com'mune noun [ French, from commun . See Common .] 1. The commonalty; the common people. [ Obsolete] Chaucer. « In this struggle -- to use the technical words of the time -- of the ' commune ', the general mass...
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7. commune
   noun a body of people or families living together and sharing everything
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8. commune
   noun the smallest administrative district of several European countries
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9. Commune
   • (n.) Absolute municipal self-government. • (n.) The commonalty; the common people. • (v. i.) To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord`s supper. • (v. i.) To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take couns...
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10. commune
    (from the article `Belgium`) Farther down the administrative hierarchy are the provinces (Flemish: provincies), each of which is divided into arrondissements and further ... ...and fiscal organization, set up a centralized judicial system (using Roman law), and began extensive legislation. Thierry and Philip granted ... The commune, ...
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11. commune
    a town in medieval western Europe that acquired self-governing municipal institutions. During the central and later period of the Middle Ages most ... [6 related articles]
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12. commune
    type of large rural organization introduced in China in 1958. Communes began as amalgamations of collective farms; but, in contrast to the ... [3 related articles]
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13. commune
    commune, in agriculture: see collective farm.
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14. commune
    commune (kôm'yOOn) , in medieval history, collective institution that developed in continental Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. Because of the importance of the commune in municipal government, the term is also used to denote a town itself to which a charter of liberties was gran...
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15. commune
    Group of people or families living together, sharing resources and responsibilities. There have been various kinds of commune through the ages, including a body of burghers or burgesses in medieval times, a religious community in America, and a communal division in communist China
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16. commune
    (France) Refers to a village and the surrounding vineyards, for example, the communes of the left bank of Bordeaux include Pauillac, St Julien, St Estèphe and so on.
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17. Commune
    A `commune` is an intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources, and, in the more radical communes, work and income. In addition to the communal economy, consensus decision-making, non-hierarchical structures and ecological living have be...
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18. Commune
    (film) `Commune` is a 2005 documentary film by Jonathan Berman. The film is about an intentional community located in Siskiyou County, California called Black Bear Ranch and features narration by Peter Coyote who himself once resided at Black Bear. Reception: Commune was well re...
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19. Commune
    (socialism) Traditionally, the revolutionary left sees the `Commune` as a populist replacement for the elitist parliament. The far-left, despite their differences, agree that the commune would have several features. The most important of these is that it would be a local and transparent organ...
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