Commune vs Constituency - What's the difference?
commune | constituency |
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.
A local political division in many European countries.
(obsolete) The commonalty; the common people.
(obsolete) communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends
* Tennyson
To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
* Shakespeare
To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
To receive the communion.
* Bishop Burnet
(British) A district represented by one or more elected officials.
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The voters within such a district.
An interest group or fan base.
As nouns the difference between commune and constituency
is that commune is 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 while constituency is (british) a district represented by one or more elected officials.As a verb commune
is to converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.commune
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) commune, in turn deriving from Latin.Noun
(wikipedia commune) (en noun)- (Chaucer)
- For days of happy commune dead.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(commun)- I would commune with you of such things / That want no ear but yours.
- He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.
- To commune under both kinds.
constituency
English
(wikipedia constituency)Noun
(constituencies)- John was elected to parliament from the Bedford constituency .
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