Difference between Communicate and Commune

What is the difference between Communicate and Commune?

Communicate as a verb is to impart or transmit (to another); to give a share of. while Commune as a verb is to be together with; to contemplate or absorb.

Communicate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To impart or transmit (to another); to give a share of. To impart information or knowledge of; to make known, to tell. To share (in); to have in common, to partake of. To receive or take part in Holy Communion. To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.

Example sentence: Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Commune

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a communityA local political division in many European countries

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be together with; to contemplate or absorb.

Example sentence: My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

We hope you now know whether to use Communicate or Commune in your sentence.

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