Communard

American  

[kom-yuh-nahrd] / ˈkɒm yəˌnɑrd /

noun

1. (often lowercase) a member or supporter of the Commune of 1871.

2. (lowercase) a person who lives in a commune.

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Communard ¹ British  

/ ˈkɒmjʊˌnɑːd /

noun

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

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communard ² British  

/ ˈkɒmjʊˌnɑːd /

noun

1. a member of a commune

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Etymology

Origin of Communard

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

Example Sentences

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

From BBC

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

It made me recall the great Raymond Mungo, the counterculture journalist turned Vermont communard and the author of shyly winning memoirs with titles like “Famous Long Ago” and “Total Loss Farm.”

From New York Times