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• A commune of Cluj County, Romania.From the entry Aluniș
• A commune of Mureș County, Romania.From the entry Aluniș
• A commune of Gorj County, Romania.From the entry Bălești
• A commune of Vrancea County, Romania.From the entry Bălești
• There are two genders: common gender (genus commune, abbreviated: com.) and neuter (genus neutrum, abbreviated: neut.).2011, Theo van den Hout, The Elements of Hittite, page 16. From the entry common gender
• Finally after a couple of hours we arrived at Yeyik —a commune surrounded by desert and mountains.2008, Harry Rutstein, The Marco Polo Odyssey, Bennett & Hastings Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 210. From the entry Yeyik
• Cadres in Xiangyang Dian commune in Pingyu county ordered the culprits to be dressed in mourning.1996, Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, The Free Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117. From the entry Pingyu
• There is a large surplus of labour in Tailu commune of Lianjiang County, Fujian Province.1981, Beijing Review, volume 24, →OCLC, page 17. From the entry Tailu
• Not only production teams and communes but entire counties were declared corrupt and unstable.1979, Frederick C. Teiwes, “Rectification and "Verdict Reversal" during the Crisis Years, 1960-1962”, in Politics & Purges in China…. From the entry Kuangshan
• CHIN HSIANG-KUAN is a barefoot doctor in the Tuchiatsun brigade, Loyuan commune, Changyang county, Hupeh province.1978 October, Hsiang-Kuan Chin, “A Barefoot Doctor Describes His Work”, in Medical Care for China's Millions, Peking, →OCLC, page 8. From the entry Changyang
• Many counties, state farms, communes and production brigades launched socialist labor emulation campaigns.1977 July 1 [1977 June 27], “Mass Criticism and All-Out Efforts Have Brought About Major Victories in the Struggle Against Drought”, in…. From the entry Lungchiang
• Women peasants of the She nationality threshing rice at the Yentien commune, Hsiapu county, Fukien province.1976, “The She People”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XV, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29. From the entry Hsiapu
• The Fangchuang commune of Hsiuwu County, Honan Province, is located at the foot of the mountains.1975, Hsin Chang, “Armymen and Civilians”, in China Pictorial, Peking: China Pictorial, →ISSN, →OCLC, column 2. From the entry Hsiuwu
• Chishan county in Shansi province, a model in medical and health work, has 11 commune hospitals.1973 November, Hua-wen Hsin, “Commune Hospitals Grow”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXII, number 11, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN…. From the entry Chishan
• The commune, located in a mountainous area, is inhabited largely by Yao and Miao people.[1973 May 10 [1973 May 1], “Kwangsi Han Cadres Learn Dialects”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 91, Foreign…. From the entry Ziyuan
• The 15 new roads reach every commune, covering 80 per cent of the production brigades under them.[1972 April 18 [1972 April 16], “Kwangtung Province Builds More Highways”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number…. From the entry Lianshan
• Shih-chia and Ts'ai-wang-la-mu, who are husband and wife, are members of Hungch'i commune of Jih-t'u hsien.1971, Survey of China Mainland Press, numbers 4889-4907, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 232. From the entry Jih-t'u
• In (Chialu) commune, Hsunyang County, the summer grain procurement quota has been overfulfilled.[1971 July 15 [1971 July 13], “Shensi Peasants Fulfill Farm Procurement Quotas”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 136…. From the entry Xunyang
• In addition, 66 production teams in the commune have put grain aside for reserves.[1971 July 15 [1971 July 13], “Shensi Peasants Fulfill Farm Procurement Quotas”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 136…. From the entry Xunyang
• The New China agency reported 'various degrees of damage' in about thirty communes.1970, “Earthquakes”, in Annual summary of information on natural disasters 1966, Belgium: Unesco, →OCLC, page 26. From the entry Pekin
• The "Red Flag" commune in Hancheng County set up a correspondence and newspaper-reading network in the brigades.1969 November 25 [1969 November 19], “Writers From Lower Levels Trained in Shensi”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number…. From the entry Hancheng
• Young school graduates in Taiku county, Shansi province, return to their home villages to become commune farmers.[1966 January, Soong Ching Ling, Yuan Ling, “Sixteen Years of Liberation”, in China Reconstructs, volume XV, number I, China Welfare…. From the entry Taigu
• The kibbutzim along the Gaza border have been socialist communes and some of the most tenacious bastions of the Israeli left.2023 October 12, Yuval Noah Harari, “Israelis and Palestinians are facing their moment of greatest danger since 1948”, in Katharine Viner…. From the entry kibbutz
• The more 'real' communalization is realized, the more decision-making competence the communes have on how to fulfil the tasks.2008, Brian Dollery, Lorenzo Robotti, The Theory and Practice of Local Government Reform, page 168. From the entry communalization
• My thoughts on this idea (yours can be completely different) were more towards a community than towards a commune or communism.1998 March 27, TFaith, “Community Artist”, in misc.creativity (Usenet), archived from the original on 25 Mar 2026. From the entry roof over the head
• Much of the land that belonged to the Maojian, Shiyan, Tumen, and Huaguo people communes were turned into urban land.1994, Chung-Yuk Mok, China's Motor Cities: Industrialization and Urban Development under State Socialism, 1948-90, volume 2, →OCLC, page 317. From the entry Zhangwan
• Dried snot on the marijuana pipe tossed into the cowpool built with government subsidy on a Vermont commune.1986, Hortense Calisher, The Bobby-Soxer, Doubleday, published 1986, →ISBN, page 278. From the entry cowpool
• A few years ago, the Bangwai production brigade of the Santaishan commune in the mountainous Luxi County, west Yunnan, was destitute.1983 July 18, Zhou Zheng, “Yunnan: A multinational frontier province”, in Beijing Review, volume 26, number 29, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23…. From the entry Luxi
• Following this example, seven communes and more than ten county agencies began a spree of building new offices.1982, Godwin C. Chu, Francis L. K. Hsu, “China's New Social Fabric: Views of Inside from Outside”, in Harrison Brown, editor, China Among…. From the entry Sanho
• Among these people there were leading cadres at the county, commune and brigade levels, ordinary cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants.1978 August 4 [1978 July 23], “Yunnan Reverses Verditcs on Large Number of Unjust Cases, Rehabilitates Many Cadres Persecuted and Falsely…. From the entry frameup
• Comrade Huo Wei-te was from a poor peasant family of (Leichiakuang) village of the (Chunghsiao) commune in Suite County, Shensi Province.1977 June 22 [1977 June 21], “Shantung First Secretary Presides Over Memorial Service”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China…. From the entry Tsinan
• I was going to join a commune of my friends.1976 April 26, Jil Clark, Julia Penelope, Susan Wolfe, “The Politics of Language”, in Gay Community News, page 8. From the entry ditto
• The communes are still very real, of course, but their organs serve primarily as communications conduits and allocations redividers.1976, James D. Seymour, China--the Politics of Revolutionary Reintegration, page 207. From the entry redivider
• Chairman Mao recommended its experience to the whole country and called on all the communes to do the same.[1976 August, “Land Improvement in China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXV, number 8, Peking: China Welfare Institute, →OCLC, page 29…. From the entry Changge
• For example, the saving deposits of commune members in Koshan County, Heilungkiang Province, grow every month and quarter.[1976 January 27 [1976 January 26], “Saving Deposits Grow Throughout Country”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I…. From the entry Keshan
• Chang Hsin-teh, one of the graduates we investigated, works in the Hsialuho commune hospital in a mountainous area of the province.1975 February, “Graduates from Three-year Medical School”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 2, Peking, →OCLC, page 29, column 2. From the entry Hsialuho
• Hsintsai County had asked the Chiliying commune for twenty cotton-growing technicians, and his team picked him as one.[1974, Li (朱力) Chu, 田洁云 [Tien Chieh-yun], 在七里营人民公社里 [Inside A People's Commune: Report from Chiliying], Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC…. From the entry Xincai
• The CCP committee of (Langshan) commune in Chiangchin County has correctly handled the relationship between the CCP committee and revolutionary committee.[1973 December 28 [1973 December 25], “Szechwan County Develops Party, Revolutionary Committees Relations”, in Daily Report: People's…. From the entry Jiangjin

Meaning of commune

1. 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.
2. noun A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).
3. noun The commonalty; the common people.

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How do you use commune in a sentence?

Commune is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.”

What is a short sentence with commune?

“A commune of Cluj County, Romania.”

What does commune mean?

Commune means 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.