Communard

[ kom-yuh-nahrd ]

noun

1. (often lowercase) French History. a member or supporter of the Commune of 1871. Compare commune ²( def 8b ).
2. (lowercase) a person who lives in a commune.

communard

¹

/ ˈkɒmjʊˌnɑːd /

noun

1. a member of a commune

Communard

²

/ ˈkɒmjʊˌnɑːd /

noun

1. any person who participated in or supported the Paris Commune formed after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871

Word History and Origins

Origin of Communard¹

From French, dating back to 1870–75; commune ², -ard

Word History and Origins

Origin of Communard¹

C19: from French

Example Sentences

Less successful than Hamza, the former Communard was the second celebrity to be voted off that year.

From BBC

The wines of Southern Burgundy, Beaujolais and the Northern Rhône will be featured, along with cocktails like a Kir Communard, made with red wine.

From New York Times

Karl Marx saw it as a prototype of his workers' revolution; Lenin was interred with a Communard flag as his shroud.

From BBC

The glaring absences in this exhibition — even more than the “Bar” — are Manet’s 1881 portrait of the exiled Communard Henri Rochefort, as well as his two late great seascapes, both titled “Rochefort’s Escape” and painted in 1880-81.

From New York Times

If there is any music film that provides less “fan service,” I couldn’t name it—and yes, I’m even including Jean-Luc Godard’s 1968 Sympathy for the Devil, which uses the Rolling Stones as a Trojan horse to convey Black Panther slogans and revolutionary communard analysis.

From Slate