Usually means: Shared living, collective economic resources.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. communes: Merriam-Webster
  2. communes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. communes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Communes, commune's, communes: Wordnik
  5. communes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. communes: Wiktionary
  7. communes: Dictionary.com
  8. communes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Communes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. communes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. communes: Legal dictionary

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  1. communes: Encyclopedia

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  1. communes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See commune as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (commune)

noun:  A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
noun:  A local political division in Chile, Vietnam, and many European countries.
noun:  (obsolete) The commonalty; the common people.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends.
noun:  (historical) A self-governing city or league of citizens.
verb:  To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
verb:  (intransitive, followed by with) To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
verb:  (Christianity, intransitive) To receive the communion.
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