COMMUNION Synonyms

• the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability

• a feeling of being intimate and belonging together

• the quality of being close and poorly ventilated

• the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance

• extreme stinginess

• characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes)

• close or warm friendship

• a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)

• the state of being connected

• an instrumentality that connects

• (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship)

• the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

• a connecting shape

• a supplier (especially of narcotics)

• shifting from one form of transportation to another

• the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)

• an association of people who share common beliefs or activities

• the state of being with someone

• money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research

• compatibility in opinion and action

• the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords

• a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole

• agreement of opinions

• an agreeable sound property

• a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people

• affectionate closeness

• of trade unions

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

• the state of being joined or united or linked

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

• a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

• a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

• the act of making or becoming a single unit

• being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War

• an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting

• the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

• the quality of being united into one

• the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist

• biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

• a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction

• using or enjoying something jointly with others

• having in common

• sharing thoughts and feelings

• a distribution in shares

• unselfishly willing to share with others

• the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist

• the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist