communicate meaning and definition

COMMUNICATE verb

Definition of communicate (verb)

1. transmit information
   • "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news"
   • synonyms: pass, pass along, pass on, put across
2. transmit thoughts or feelings
   • "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist"
   • synonyms: intercommunicate
3. transfer to another
   • "communicate a disease"
   • synonyms: 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
   • antonym: curse
7. receive Communion, in the Catholic church
   • synonyms: commune