| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | com·mune |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k -my n |
| INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: com·muned, com·mun·ing, com·munes
1. To be in a state of intimate, heightened sensitivity and receptivity, as with one's surroundings: hikers communing with nature. 2. To receive the Eucharist. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English comunen, to have common dealings with, converse, from Old French communer, to make common, share (from commun, common; see common)and perhaps from Old French communier, to share in the Communion (from Late Latin comm nic re, from Latin, to communicate; see communicate).| OTHER FORMS: | com·muner —NOUN
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