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communal
[ kuh-myoon-l, kom-yuh-nl ]
adjective
- used or shared in common by everyone in a group:
a communal jug of wine.
- of, by, or belonging to the people of a community; shared or participated in by the public:
communal land; Building the playground was a communal project.
Synonyms: collective, common, public
- pertaining to a commune or a community:
communal life.
- engaged in by or involving two or more communities:
communal conflict.
communal
/ ˌkɒmjʊˈnælɪtɪ; ˈkɒmjʊnəl /
adjective
- belonging or relating to a community as a whole
- relating to different groups within a society
communal strife
- of or relating to a commune or a religious community
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Derived Forms
- ˈcommunally, adverb
- communality, noun
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Other Words From
- com·munal·ly adverb
- inter·com·munal adjective
- noncom·munal adjective
- noncom·munal·ly adverb
- uncom·munal adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
The remote controlled flying craft has gone from covert military ops to a communal backyard hobby.
It was about his art-making, but the communal life was based on erotic liberation.
Elsewhere, the bi-communal separation continues, with fierce nationalists seemingly intent on cementing this divide.
Contestants, huddled on the couches of a communal room, clutched their faces in shock and some broke into sobs.
Winters uses that cataclysmic event to examine the slow deterioration of communal life in the face of annihilation.
One important characteristic of the communal animals is that they become mentally specialized.
The hive bee, the most communal in habit, shows the highest traits of intelligent activity.
The social animals differ from the communal in that the individuality of the members is fully preserved.
The result of such a process of evolution in the case of the communal animals is a strict specialism.
While only in minor traits communal, they are eminently social, and have doubtless derived great advantage from this.
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