Commune vs Corporation - What's the difference?
commune | corporation |
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
A group of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
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, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
(slang) A protruding belly; a paunch.
* 1918 , (Katherine Mansfield), ‘Prelude’, Selected Stories , Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91:
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 316:
As nouns the difference between commune and corporation
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 corporation is a group of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.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.
corporation
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}
- 'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation .'
- He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.