commune
part of speech
verb (communes, communed, communing); noun (plural communes)
meaning for a pupil
1) (old use) To commune is to talk quietly, or think deeply, with oneself, a friend or nature. tree →
2) A commune is a group of people who live together and share their work and things. tree →
sense in the lessons
in tales a hero communes with his own heart, thinking quietly in his own mind, while in history a commune is a group of people sharing a town or a house.
examples
- He communed with himself on the deck at night. tree →
- She communed with the trees in the quiet wood. tree →
- The villagers formed a commune and shared their food. tree →
- The commune rewarded the man for his help. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «commune» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.