communicate

com-mu-ni-cate · verb

imported

Definitions

verb

  1. 1.

    To share or exchange information, news, or ideas with others.

  2. 2.

    To convey or transmit meaning or feeling.

  3. 3.

    To succeed in conveying one's ideas or in evoking understanding.

  4. 4.

    (of rooms) To have a common connecting door.

  5. 5.

    To transmit a disease from one person or organism to another.

Related words

Antonyms: conceal, withhold
See also: commune, communicating, communication
Synonyms: convey, express, share, transmit

Etymology

From Latin communicare ("to share, impart, inform"), from communis ("common"). The word entered English in the 16th century.