Communion: Definition and part of speech

Communion

  1. n. The sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the Lord’s supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to communion; to partake of the communion.
  2. n. The act of sharing; community; participation.
  3. n. Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints.
  4. n. A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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