Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
COMMUNE
I. verb (communed; communing)
Etymology: Middle English, to share, receive Communion, from Anglo-French communer, cummunier, from Late Latin communicare, from Latin
Date: 15th century
transitive verb talk over , discuss , intransitive verb to receive Communion, to communicate intimately ,
II. noun
Etymology: French, alteration of Middle French comugne, from Medieval Latin communia, from Latin, neuter plural of communis
Date: 1673
the smallest administrative district of many countries especially in Europe, commonalty 1a, community: as, a medieval usually municipal corporation, b. mir , an often rural community organized on a communal basis