Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Communicate has 9 different meanings across 1 category:
transmit information
"Please communicate this message to all employees"
"pass along the good news"
transmit thoughts or feelings
"He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist"
be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas
"He and his sons haven't communicated for years"
"Do you communicate well with your advisor?"
administer Communion; in church
"The priest will communicate during the Easter Mass so that every believer can receive the Eucharist."
receive Communion, in the Catholic church
"After years of absence from Mass, he finally returned to communicate at Easter Sunday service."
To impart
"The teacher struggled to communicate her complex instructions clearly to the students who were already confused."
To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
"The teacher struggled to communicate the complex scientific concept clearly to her young students."
In plain English: To communicate is to share information or feelings with someone else so they can understand you.
"They communicated their decision by sending an email to everyone on the team."
Usage: Use "communicate" as a verb when you mean to convey information, ideas, or feelings from one person to another through speech, writing, or gestures. It describes the active process of sharing a message rather than simply existing in the same place as someone else.
The word communicate entered English as a borrowing from Latin, where it originally meant to share or make something common. It was formed by adding the verb suffix -ate to commūnicāt-, which itself derived from commūnis, meaning "common."