- 1shared by, or for the use of, a number of people, especially people who live together a communal kitchen/garden, etc. As a student he tried communal living for a few years.
- 2involving different groups of people in a community communal violence between religious groups
NAmE//kəˈmyunəli//
adverb The property was owned communally.See communal in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: communal