communal
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3.9
- adjective
- /kəˈmjunəl/
:
comunitario
- She told me about a communal school all the neighborhood children attend.
- communal life
- communal spaces
- communal ownership
And I think people do that very commonly in communal relationships.
- And I think people do that very commonly in communal relationships.
- It's like a big communal hug.
- Wow, a hotel with a communal shower?
- It's often been a communal process.
- And so when they first saw surfing, it was a lot more communal.
- And and maybe your generation is moving us toward that, that sort of more communal approach to love.
- On rainy days, the children met in the loft of the communal barn and got hay in their pants.
- Could poetry have begun as the chanting of vowel sounds around a communal fire, or by mothers to infants?
- That's what people want to watch on a big screen TV and it's very communal.
- And so one needs to have these communal sharings.
- Squatting is part of these communal intentions.
- They're proud, belonging to each other, communal, disciplined, active.
Examples
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I cook for the twelve of us who live together in this communal house of women.
Fiction book (2002) -
Eddie took a potato from the communal bowl, peeled it with a knife, and ate the white.
Fiction book (1997) -
Well, it's like a communal experience, huh?
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Are there communal elements to this?
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Do you ever stay in a communal living type of place for education?
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It's often been a communal process.
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You could call it a communal farm, I suppose.
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We are led along a trail and shown into a communal meeting house, where a welcoming ceremony is enacted.
Academic text (2008) -
It was such a gift to everybody to do something safe and normal and communal and celebratory.
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The women have also started a communal savings account shared by some 30 families.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Shared by two or more people
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3.5
Shared by two or more groups
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1.0
Something that people, groups, or things share
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3.9
Shared by all members of a group acting together
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1.0
Used, held, or felt by more than one group of people
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How Communal
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Etymology
The word communal comes from the Latin communis meaning 'shared' and is the same root as community and common. So a communal garden or effort is 'used or shared by everyone' in a group, which is why communal means things owned or done by the community rather than by one person.