communal
adjective/kəˈmjuːnl/, /ˈkɒmjənl/
/kəˈmjuːnl/
- shared by, or for the use of, a number of people, especially people who live together synonym shared
- a communal kitchen/garden
- As a student he tried communal living for a few years.
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesb2- He led me down the corridor to the communal kitchen.
- The gardens surrounding the building were communal.
- Water is fetched daily from a communal tap in the centre of the village.
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- involving different groups of people in a community
- communal violence between religious groups
Word Originearly 19th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to a commune, especially the Paris Commune’): from French, from late Latin communalis, from communis ‘common’.
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