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   Com·mune

   /ˈkäˌmyo͞on/

   

   noun

   • 1. a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities: "she went to California and joined a commune"
   • ▪ a communal settlement in a communist country: "we all went out of Beijing by bus to spend a morning at a commune"
   • 2. the smallest French territorial division for administrative purposes: "very few of the abbey's vineyards were actually located within the commune of Hautvillers"
   • ▪ a territorial division similar to a French commune in other countries.
   • 3. the group that seized the municipal government of Paris in the French Revolution and played a leading part in the Reign of Terror until suppressed in 1794.
   • ▪ the municipal government organized on communalistic principles elected in Paris in 1871. It was soon brutally suppressed by government troops.

   Word Origin late 18th century: from French, use as noun of the feminine of commun (adjective), from Latin communis (see common).

   Scrabble Points: 13

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