commune
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5.0
- noun
- /kəˈmjun/
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comuna
- The families in the commune worked together to grow their own food and support each other.
- commune members
- commune residents
- a hippie commune
And I would like to expand that into a commune or a cult, who's to say?
- And I would like to expand that into a commune or a cult, who's to say?
- So I, it's not that I'm, I'm, this is not some hippie, you know, commune, you know, thing.
- I visited a drug rehabilitation commune north of San Francisco called Synanon.
- So they take inspiration from historical anarchist communist communes and they try to carry out these experiments wherever they can.
- Not a network, not a commune, but an institution.
- We're homeschooling, so my wife teaches them three days a week and then they go to home school, basically home school, like a commune type of thing.
Examples
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Here we have a commune on the brink of apocalypse.
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The neighbors around here, we're part of a seaside commune.
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Well, here at the commune, we take a personal interest in our guests.
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You grew up in a commune?
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Well, when we were about your age, we used to be in the same commune.
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And Holland created a commune on that basis.
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There's this commune on an island.
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My parents founded a... religious commune, I suppose you'd call it.
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They left early to join a commune.
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In these early days, Unificationists lived on rural communes, like the Moon family estate in New York.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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3.9
Shared by all members of a group acting together
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3.2
A community of people with the same interest who live together in one place
How Communal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Commune for a group of people living together comes from Latin communis 'shared' and is like the English word common. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine people sharing food, work and things 'in common', which is what a commune does.