communicate

The definition of communicate means to exchange ideas or make something known.

(verb)

An example of to communicate is to call a friend on the phone.

See communicate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

Origin: < L communicatus, pp. of communicare, to impart, share, lit., to make common < communis, common

intransitive verb

to receive Holy Communion
1. to give or exchange information, signals, or messages in any way, as by talk, gestures, or writing
2. to have a sympathetic or meaningful relationship
to be connected: the living room communicates with the dining room

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See communicate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb com·mu·ni·cat·ed, com·mu·ni·cat·ing, com·mu·ni·cates

verb, transitive

a. To convey information about; make known; impart: communicated his views to our office.
b. To reveal clearly; manifest: Her disapproval communicated itself in her frown.
To spread (a disease, for example) to others; transmit: a carrier who communicated typhus.

verb, intransitive

To have an interchange, as of ideas.
To express oneself in such a way that one is readily and clearly understood: “That ability to communicate was strange in a man given to long, awkward silences” (Anthony Lewis).
Ecclesiastical To receive Communion.
To be connected, one with another: apartments that communicate.

Origin:

Origin: Latin commūnicāre, commūnicāt-

Origin: , from commūnis, common; see mei-¹ in Indo-European roots

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