Other forms: communes
A commune is a group living together and sharing what they own. Live in a commune, a rural commune, join the commune.
The word also names a unit of local government in France and Italy, which is its plainest sense there. The Paris Commune of 1871 was a revolutionary government that held the city for two months. To commune with somebody is a different word, meaning to share thoughts.
1nouncommuneA group living together and sharing what they own.
“In the seventies they lived on a commune where everyone shared the cooking and the farm work.”
commune is a community.
Latin communis means shared or common. The French commune named a self-governing town.
Proto-Indo-European
*mey- (change)
Latin
commūne — community, state
Medieval Latin
commūnia
Old French
comune
Middle English
commune
English, today
commune
Built from
From Middle English commune, comune, from Old French comune, commune, from Medieval Latin commūnia, from Latin commūne (“community, state”), from commūnis (“common”). a doublet of comune. See also community, communion, common.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA