[kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- share or exchange information, news, or ideas
(e.g: the prisoner was forbidden to communicate with his family)

- pass on (an infectious disease) to another person or animal
(e.g: the disease is communicated from one person to another)

- (of two rooms) have a common connecting door
(e.g: the dining room communicates with the kitchen)

- receive Holy Communion
(e.g: orthodox policy is to communicate in both kinds (i.e. both bread and wine))


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Origin:
early 16th century: from Latin communicat- ‘shared’, from the verb communicare, from communis (see common)