1a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities:she went to California and joined a commune
a communal settlement in a communist country:we all went out of Beijing by bus to spend a morning at a commune
2the smallest French territorial division for administrative purposes:very few of the abbey’s vineyards were actually located within the commune of Hautvillers
a territorial division similar to a French commune in other countries.
3 (the Commune) the group which seized the municipal government of Paris in the French Revolution and played a leading part in the Reign of Terror until suppressed in 1794.
(also the Paris Commune) the municipal government organized on communalistic principles that was elected in Paris in 1871. It was soon brutally suppressed by government troops.
