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Verb: communicate  ku'myoo-nu,keyt
  1. Transmit information
    "Please communicate this message to all employees";
    - pass on, pass, pass along, put across
     
  2. Transmit thoughts or feelings
    "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist";
    - intercommunicate
     
  3. Transfer to another
    "communicate a disease";
    - convey, transmit
     
  4. Join or connect
    "The rooms communicated"
     
  5. Be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas
    "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor?"
     
  6. Administer Communion; in church
     
  7. Receive Communion, in the Catholic church
    - commune

Derived forms: communicated, communicates, communicating

Type of: covenant, interact, intercommunicate, transfer

Antonym: excommunicate

Encyclopedia: Communicate