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communal

  • adjective
  • /kəˈmjuː.nəl/

Pertaining to a community or a commune.

Other meanings

  1. Shared by a community; public.

  2. Defined by religious ideas; based on religion.

    “communal violence”

Related words

  • uncommunal
  • communal shower
  • communally
  • communality
  • intercommunal
  • noncommunal
  • communal bin
  • communalect
  • communalism
  • communalistic
  • communalize
  • communalise

Word history

From Latin "commūnis".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “communal” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.