intercommunion

1. 1.

   participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (eg Catholic and Orthodox)

   BroaderCommunion

Other forms of intercommunion

plural

intercommunions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about intercommunion

What does intercommunion mean?

intercommunion means "participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (eg Catholic and Orthodox)".

How many syllables are in intercommunion?

intercommunion has 6 syllables: in-ter-com-mu-ni-on. The stress falls on "mu".

Is intercommunion a common word?

intercommunion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.