communicate
Pronunciation: /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/
The English word “communicate” has 9 meanings listed here.
verb
- To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
- To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
- To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
- To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.
- To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
- To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
- To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
- To be connected by means of an opening or channel [with with ‘another room, vessel etc.’].
adjective
Etymology
Adapted borrowing of Latin commūnicāt- (past participial stem of commūnicō (“share, impart; make common”)) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from commūnis (“common”) + -icō. Compare French communiquer and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, communique.
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