communicate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To share information or ideas with someone by speaking, writing, or other means.

   Please communicate this message to all employees.

2. 2
   verb

   To express your thoughts or feelings so others understand them.

   They communicated their worries to the doctor.

3. 3
   verb

   To pass something, such as a disease, from one person to another.

   The illness can be communicated through close contact.

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

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