Definition of: communicate

(kə·my′nə·kāt) v. ·cat·ed, ·cat·ing v.t.
1. To make another or others partakers of; impart; transmit, as news, a disease, or an idea.
2. To administer the communion to.
—v.i.
3. To make or hold communication.
4. To be connected, as rooms.
5. To partake of communion. See synonyms under ANNOUNCE, GIVE, INFORM, PUBLISH. [<L communicatus. pp. of communicare share <communis common]
—com·mu′ni·ca′tor noun
—com·mu·ni·ca·to·ry (kə·my′·nə·kə·-tō′rē) adjective