<B>communicable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that can be transferred or passed along to others. <BR> <I>Ex. Scarlet fever is a communicable disease. Ideas are communicable by words.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) talkative; communicative. noun <B>communicableness.</B> adv. <B>communicably.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="communicant">
<B>communicant, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>a person who receives Holy Communion. <DD><B> b. </B>a regular member of a church. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who informs or communicates. <BR> <I>Ex. The witness refused to reveal the name of his communicant.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> communicating. </DL>
<A NAME="communicate">
<B>communicate, </B>verb, <B>-cated,</B> <B>-cating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to give (information or news) by speaking or writing; write, telephone, telegraph, etc.. <BR> <I>Ex. I asked your sister to communicate my wishes to you. The discovery he made and communicated with his friends (Jonathan Swift).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to pass along; transfer; transmit. <BR> <I>Ex. The stove communicated heat to the room. The boy communicated his cold to his classmates.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to administer Holy Communion to. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to give information or news by speaking or writing; send and receive messages; talk, telephone, telegraph, etc.. <BR> <I>Ex. We have yet to communicate with the inhabitants of another planet. Deaf people communicate by sign language.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to exchange ideas or thoughts. <BR> <I>Ex. A good teacher communicates with his class.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to be connected. <BR> <I>Ex. The dining room communicates with the kitchen.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to receive Holy Communion. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Obsolete.) to take part; participate. noun <B>communicator.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="communication">
<B>communication, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a giving of information or news by speaking or writing. <BR> <I>Ex. People who are deaf often use sign language as a means of communication. One of the main functions of the arts as communication is to reinforce belief, custom, and values (Beals and Hoijer).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a letter, message, information, or news given. <BR> <I>Ex. Your communication came in time to change all my plans.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a means of going from one to the other; passage; connection. <BR> <I>Ex. There is no communication between these two rooms.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the act or fact of passing along; transfer. <BR><I>expr. <B>communications,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>a system of communicating by telephone, telegraph, radio, television, and computers. </I> <I>Ex. A network of communications links all parts of the civilized world.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>system of routes or facilities for transporting military supplies, vehicles, and troops. <BR> <I>Ex. The enemy bombers tried to break up our line of communications.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>the study of giving information and entertainment by talking or writing, by magazine and newspaper, by radio, television, or computers. Communications includes the study of writing clearly. </DL>
<A NAME="communicational">
<B>communicational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with communication. </DL>
<A NAME="communicationsgap">
<B>communications gap,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a failure in communication between different age groups, social classes, etc.. <BR> <I>Ex. There is a growing gulf--a widening "communications gap"--between the governors and the governed (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="communicationssatellite">
<B>communications satellite,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an artificial satellite that relays microwave signals between two points on the earth. </DL>
<A NAME="communicationtheory">
<B>communication theory,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of science dealing with the quality and characteristics of transmitted information; information theory. </DL>
<A NAME="communicative">
<B>communicative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>ready to give information; talkative. <BR> <I>Ex. Permissive fathers in the group were self-reliant, communicative, persuasive, and efficient (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with communication. adv. <B>communicatively.</B> noun <B>communicativeness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="communicatory">
<B>communicatory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with communication. </DL>
<A NAME="communion">
<B>communion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the act of sharing; a having in common; sharing; participation. <BR> <I>Ex. The partners had a communion of interests.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the condition of things held in common with others; community; union. <DD><B> 2. </B>exchange of thoughts and feelings; intimate talk; fellowship. <BR> <I>Ex. They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet quaff immortality and joy (Milton).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a close spiritual relationship. <BR> <I>Ex. To him who in the love of Nature holds communion with her visible forms (William Cullen Bryant).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a group of people having the same religious beliefs. </DL>
<A NAME="communion">
<B>Communion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the act of sharing in the Lord's Supper as a part of church worship; Holy Communion; Eucharist. <DD><B> b. </B>the elements of the Eucharist. <DD><B> c. </B>an antiphon said or sung during the Communion service. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=Communion service.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="communionist">
<B>communionist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who has definite beliefs about Holy Communion. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=communicant.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="communionofsaints">
<B>communion of saints,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the relationship among members of the same faith; religious fellowship. </DL>
<A NAME="communionservice">
<B>Communion service,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the celebration of the Lord's Supper. <DD><B> 2. </B>proper order of service for this. </DL>
<A NAME="communionsunday">
<B>Communion Sunday,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any Sunday on which a Communion service is held. </DL>
<A NAME="communique">
<B>communique, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an official bulletin, statement, or other communication. <BR> <I>Ex. [The Secretary-General] must have had some measure of success because he allowed use of the word "useful" in the communique (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<B>communism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a system in which most or all property is owned by the state and is supposed to be shared by all. Communism comes from a philosophy based on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 1800's and seeks the overthrow of noncommunist societies in behalf of the laboring class, usually as the result of a series of struggles of class conflict. <DD><B> 2. </B>a political, social, and economic system in which the state, governed by an elite party, controls production, labor, and distribution, and, largely, the social and cultural life and thought of the people. <BR> <I>Ex. Communism is expressed in various movements, but Russian sovietism [was] often referred to as a fair sample. In Communism ownership and control of everything would be in the hands of a small group presumably representing the common people (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a social order in which property is held in common by the community or the state; communalism. </DL>
<A NAME="communism">
<B>Communism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the political principles and practices of members of a Communist Party, especially of the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union. </DL>
<A NAME="communist">
<B>communist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who favors and supports communism. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=Communard.</B> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=communistic.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="communist">
<B>Communist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a member of a Communist Party. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with a Communist Party. </DL>
<A NAME="communistic">
<B>communistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with communists or communism. <DD><B> 2. </B>favoring communism. </DL>
<B>Communist Party,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the single political party in the former Soviet Union, originally the left wing of the Social Democratic Party led by Lenin and called the Bolshevik Party, which controlled the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. <DD><B> 2. </B>a political party anywhere that supports communism. </DL>
<A NAME="communitarian">
<B>communitarian, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a member of a communistic community. <DD><B> 2. </B>a supporter of communistic principles. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who favors and supports communitarianism. <BR> <I>Ex. Communitarians fault liberals for reflexively blaming economic forces for poverty ... while neglecting the importance of personal responsibility (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> favoring or supporting communitarianism. <BR> <I>Ex. [Charles Taylor] is well known in his native Canada as a "communitarian" social critic (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
