communism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Latin comoinis
Latin commūnis
Old French comun
French commun
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.
Latin -ismusbor.
French -isme
French communismebor.
English communism
A borrowing from French communisme, which was formed from commun (“common”) (from Latin commūnis) and the suffix -isme (“-ism”). By surface analysis, commune + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: communisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Communism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any far-left political ideology or philosophy advocating holding the production of resources collectively, especially by seizing it through revolution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I want to gather together about twenty souls and sail away from this world of war and squalor and found a little colony where there shall be no money but a sort of communism as far as necessaries of life go, and some real decency.
gloss: Any political social system that implements a communist political philosophy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The international socialist society where classes, money, and the state no longer exist.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any left-wing ideology, government regulations, or policies promoting a welfare state, nationalisation, etc.
pos: noun
tags: Western
colloquial
countable
derogatory
often
uncountable
examples: This tax plan is communism!
gloss: Readiness to share scientific findings (the first of the Mertonian norms).
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
examples: A recent survey of 633 South Korean scientists found not only that communism was the Mertonian norm they thought most respected in practice (Kim and Kim 2018, 9), but also that younger scientists’ replies showed evidence of ‘mounting tension between the commercialisation of academic science and the norm of communalism’ (Kim and Kim 2018, 19). Our focus on scientific communism and its relationship to commercial research may thus reflect the concerns of working scientists.
gloss: communality, sharedness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
examples: Rational expectations econometrics extends a communism of statistical models to include a “sharing with nature” that is an essential input into making maximum likelihood or generalized method of moments be good estimators.
Related words: commie
communal
communalism
commune
communist
communistic
communistical
communistically
decommunisation
res communis
authoritarianism
capitalism
collectivism
Hitlerism
individualism
leftism
Leninism
liberalism
Maoism
Marxism
Marxism-Leninism
National Socialism
Nazism
socialism
Stalinism
statism
totalitarianism
Trotskyism
Derived words: anarchocommunism
anarcho-communism
anticommunism
barracks communism
council communism
cryptocommunism
cybercommunism
Eurocommunism
Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism
gay race communism
goulash communism
Islamocommunism
left communism
market communism
military communism
neocommunism
noncommunism
Obamunism
para-communism
postcommunism
procommunism
race communism
scientific communism
Serbo-Communism
war communism
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: kommunisme
lang: Albanian
word: komunizëm
lang: Amharic
word: ኰሙኒስም
roman: kʷämunism
lang: Arabic
word: شُيُوعِيَّة
roman: šuyūʕiyya
lang: Arabic
word: شيوعية
roman: šuyūʕiyya
lang: Aragonese
word: comunismo
lang: Armenian
word: կոմունիզմ
roman: komunizm
lang: Armenian
word: համայնատիրություն
roman: hamaynatirutʻyun
lang: Assamese
word: সাম্যবাদ
roman: xaimmobad
lang: Asturian
word: comunismu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: kommunizm
lang: Basque
word: komunismo
lang: Belarusian
word: камуні́зм
roman: kamunízm
lang: Bengali
word: কমিউনিজম
roman: komiunijom
lang: Bengali
word: সাম্যবাদ
roman: śammobad
lang: Bulgarian
word: комуни́зъм
roman: komunízǎm
lang: Burmese
word: ကွန်မြူနစ်စနစ်
roman: kwanmrunacca.nac
lang: Burmese
word: ကွန်မြူနစ်ဝါဒ
roman: kwanmrunac-wada.
lang: Catalan
word: comunisme
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 共產主義 /共产主义
roman: gung⁶ caan² zyu² ji⁶
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 共產主義 /共产主义
roman: gê̤ṳng-sāng ciō-ngiê
lang: Chinese
word: 共產主義 /共产主义
roman: kiōng-sán-chú-gī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 共產主義 /共产主义
roman: gòngchǎnzhǔyì
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 共產主義 /共产主义
roman: ⁶gon-tshe-tsy-gni
lang: Corsican
word: cumunismu
lang: Czech
word: komunismus
lang: Danish
word: kommunisme
lang: Dutch
word: communisme
lang: Esperanto
word: komunismo
lang: Estonian
word: kommunism
lang: Faroese
word: kommunisma
lang: Finnish
word: kommunismi
lang: French
word: communisme
lang: West-Frisian
word: kommunisme
lang: Galician
word: comunismo
lang: Georgian
word: კომუნიზმი
roman: ḳomunizmi
lang: German
word: Kommunismus
lang: Greek
word: κομμουνισμός
roman: kommounismós
lang: Greenlandic
word: kommunistiussuseq
lang: Gujarati
word: સામ્યવાદ
roman: sāmyavād
lang: Hebrew
word: קוֹמוּנִיזְם
roman: komunízm
lang: Hindi
word: साम्यवाद
roman: sāmyavād
lang: Hindi
word: कम्युनिज़म
roman: kamyunizam
lang: Hindi
word: समानतावाद
roman: samāntāvād
lang: Hungarian
word: kommunizmus
lang: Icelandic
word: kommúnismi
lang: Ido
word: komunismo
lang: Indonesian
word: komunisme
lang: Irish
word: cumannachas
lang: Italian
word: comunismo
lang: Japanese
word: 共産主義
roman: kyōsanshugi
lang: Kannada
word: ಸಾಮ್ಯವಾದ
roman: sāmyavāda
lang: Kazakh
word: коммунизм
roman: kommunizm
lang: Khmer
word: កុម្មុយនិស្តនិយម
roman: kommuynɨh niyum
lang: Khmer
word: លទ្ធិកុម្មុយនិស្ត
roman: latthiʼ kommuynɨh
lang: Korean
word: 공산주의
roman: gongsanjuui
lang: Central Kurdish
word: کۆمۆنیزم
roman: komonîzm
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: komûnîzm
lang: Kyrgyz
word: коммунизм
roman: kommunizm
lang: Lao
word: ລັດທິຄອມມູນິດ
roman: lat thi khǭm mū nit
lang: Latin
word: communismus
lang: Latvian
word: komunisms
lang: Lingala
word: komynisimɛ
lang: Lithuanian
word: komunizmas
lang: Low German
word: Kommunismus
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Kommunismus
lang: Macedonian
word: комуни́зам
roman: komunízam
lang: Malagasy
word: kominisma
lang: Malagasy
word: komonisma
lang: Malay
word: komunisme
lang: Malay
word: faham komunis
lang: Malayalam
word: കമ്യൂണിസം
roman: kamyūṇisaṁ
lang: Malayalam
word: സാമ്യവാദം
roman: sāmyavādaṁ
lang: Maltese
word: komuniżmu
lang: Manx
word: cummynys
lang: Māori
word: whiwhingatahitanga
lang: Māori
word: angatōpū
lang: Marathi
word: साम्यवाद
roman: sāmyavād
lang: Mongolian
word: коммунизм
roman: kommunizm
lang: Mongolian
word: эв хамт ёс
roman: ev xamt jos
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠺᠣᠮᠮᠦ᠋ᠨᠢᠰᠮ
roman: kommünism
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠡᠪ ᠬᠠᠮᠲᠤ ᠶᠣᠰᠤ
roman: eb qamtu yosu
lang: Nepali
word: साम्यवाद
roman: sāmyavād
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kommunisme
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kommunisme
lang: Occitan
word: comunisme
lang: Odia
word: ସାମ୍ଯବାଦ
roman: sāmjabāda
lang: Pashto
word: کمونيزم
roman: kamūnizm
lang: Iranian Persian
word: کُمونیسْم
roman: komunism
lang: Polish
word: komunizm
lang: Portuguese
word: comunismo
lang: Punjabi
word: ਸਾਮਵਾਦ
roman: sāmavād
lang: Quechua
word: kumunismu
lang: Romanian
word: comunism
lang: Russian
word: коммуни́зм
roman: kommunízm
lang: Sardinian
word: comunismu
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: comannachd
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: co-mhaoineas
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: комунѝзам
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: komunìzam
lang: Sicilian
word: cumunismu
lang: Sinhalese
word: සමසමාජවාදය
roman: samasamājawādaya
lang: Slovak
word: komunizmus
lang: Slovene
word: komunizem
lang: Spanish
word: comunismo
lang: Swahili
word: ukomunisti
lang: Swedish
word: kommunism
lang: Tagalog
word: komunismo
lang: Tagalog
word: kalamaan
lang: Tajik
word: коммунизм
roman: kommunizm
lang: Tamil
word: பொதுவுடைமை
roman: potuvuṭaimai
lang: Tamil
word: கம்யூனிசம்
roman: kamyūṉicam
lang: Tatar
word: коммунизм
roman: qommunizm
lang: Telugu
word: సామ్యవాదము
roman: sāmyavādamu
lang: Thai
word: ลัทธิคอมมิวนิสต์
roman: lát-tí-kɔm-miu-nít
lang: Tibetan
word: གུང་ཁྲན་རིང་ལུགས
roman: gung khran ring lugs
lang: Tibetan
word: དམར་པོའི་རིང་ལུགས
roman: dmar po'i ring lugs
lang: Turkish
word: komünizm
lang: Turkish
word: komünistlik
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قومونیزم
roman: komünizm
lang: Turkmen
word: kommunizm
lang: Tuvan
word: коммунизм
roman: kommunizm
lang: Ukrainian
word: комуні́зм
roman: komunízm
lang: Urdu
word: اِشْتِمالِیَت
roman: iśtimāliyat
lang: Urdu
word: کَمْیُونِزْم
roman: kamyūnizm
lang: Uyghur
word: كوممۇنىزم
roman: kommunizm
lang: Uzbek
word: kommunizm
lang: Venetan
word: comunismo
lang: Vietnamese
word: chủ nghĩa cộng sản
lang: Volapük
word: kobädim
lang: Welsh
word: comiwnyddiaeth
lang: Yiddish
word: קאָמוניזם
roman: komunizm
lang: Zhuang
word: gungcanjcujyi
lang: Zhuang
word: gungcanj cujyi