communard means A person who lives in a commune. It carries an Arena rating of 1439, earned across 38 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, communard ranks #1,231 of 17,106 for Most Storied Words, #5,924 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words, #6,505 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #6,515 of 17,135 for Most Malleable Words.
Why “communard” is a great word
COMMUNARD — [Noun] A member or supporter of the Paris Commune of 1871, or, more generally, a person who lives in a commune. From French communard, from commune ("commune") + -ard (a suffix forming nouns, often pejorative). First attested in English in the early 1870s. Unlike “communist” (which denotes an adherent of a sweeping political and economic ideology) or the neutral “commune member,” a communard is branded by the grit of a specific, lived utopia. It is the scent of gunpowder and fresh-baked bread in a besieged city, the stubborn planting of vegetables on seized ground, and the deliberate sharing of a single loaf among a dozen hollow stomachs—a testament to those who briefly lived a theory, knowing it would end in fire, yet chose that defiant togetherness all the same.
Etymology
From French communard.
noun
- A person who lives in a commune.
- A member of the Paris Commune of 1871.
- A supporter of their cause.
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