v.
- share or exchange information or ideas.
▸convey (an emotion or feeling) in a non-verbal way.
- pass on (an infectious disease).
▸transmit (heat or motion).
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[often as adj. communicating]
(of two rooms) have a common connecting door.
- receive Holy Communion.
Derivative
- communicator n.
- communicatory adj.
Etymology
C16 (earlier (ME) as communication): from L. communicat-, communicare ‘share’, from communis (see common).