communicate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to transmit thoughts or feelings

   They communicated their anxieties to the psychiatrist.

2. 2
   verb

   to transmit information

   Please communicate this message to all employees.

3. 3
   verb

   to join or connect

   The rooms communicated

4. 4
   verb

   to transfer to another

   communicate a disease

5. 5
   verb

   To impart.

   It is vital that I communicate this information to you.

6. 6
   verb

   To share

   We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.

7. 7
   adj

   Communicated, (made) commune, joined.

   The property of the manhood is communicate with the other nature.

8. 8
   verb

   to receive Communion, in the Catholic church

Etymology

From Middle English communicate, an adapted borrowing of Latin commūnicātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), perfect passive participle of commūnicō (“to make commune”).