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Commune vs Constituency - What's the difference?

commune | constituency |

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)
  • 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.
  • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends
  • * Tennyson
  • For days of happy commune dead.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (commun)
  • To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I would commune with you of such things / That want no ear but yours.
  • To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
  • He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.
  • To receive the communion.
  • * Bishop Burnet
  • To commune under both kinds.
    English heteronyms ----

    constituency

    Noun

    (constituencies)
  • (British) A district represented by one or more elected officials.
  • John was elected to parliament from the Bedford constituency .
  • * {{quote-news
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  • The voters within such a district.
  • An interest group or fan base.
  • Synonyms

    * (district) electoral district, riding (Canada) * (people) electorate

    See also