A smallcommunity, oftenrural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in thedivision of labour; the members of such a community.
1975, Peter J. Seybolt, editor,The Rustication of Urban Youth in China[1], published2015,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,→OL,page148:
The town of Chu-chou in Hunan Province, carrying out the great directive of Chairman Mao that "educated youths must go to the villages," has put into practice factory-commune links, and under the leadership of cadres, has made a collective settlement of educated youths incommune and brigade farms, forest areas, and tea plantations.
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1681,Gilbert Burnet, “[A Collection of Records, and Original Papers; with Other Instruments Referred to in the Second Part of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England.] Book I.”, inThe History of the Reformation of the Church of England. The Second Part,[…], London:[…] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell,[…],→OCLC,page207:
Namely, in these things, in prohibiting that none shouldcommune alone, in making the People whole Communers, or in suffering them to Commune under both kinds[…]
“commune”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"commune", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
commune inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[2], London:Macmillan and Co.
(ambiguous) we know from experience:usu rerum (vitae, vitae communis) edocti sumus
