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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
communal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
communal facilities (=to be used by everyone who lives in a place)
▪ Communal facilities at the campsite were well-maintained.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
facility
▪ The residents are able to enjoy the privacy of their own accommodation together with the communal facilities offered within these projects.
▪ The freehold maisonettes, proposed in 1922 were to have communal facilities run by servants in three shifts.
group
▪ It supports communal groups of various sorts but does not fund individuals.
▪ This section will focus on these two perspectives and their relationship with non-violent aspects of communal group protest activity.
▪ The gens was the communal group which Marx, following Morgan, considered as ante-dating all known history.
kitchen
▪ We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee.
▪ Simultaneously, they chose block committees, established communal kitchens, organized working parties, and formed a camp welfare committee.
▪ A lot of these buildings are co-housing: private apartments with communal kitchens and so on.
▪ Java Joe and his friend Bic chopped up potatoes and began frying them with onions and garlic in a communal kitchen.
▪ They were going to a communal kitchen for supper for all.
life
▪ Labour, however, is not, nor are people's daily individual and communal lives.
▪ In Magdalen's communal life I took little part.
property
▪ By itself, this denial of Filmer's view could entail a theory of communal property.
▪ Even Aristotle complained that communal property always looked worse than private lands.
▪ Here again the main focus is the contradiction between communal property and the growth of individual property.
▪ The atmosphere and the seas are, like the classroom, communal property without clear lines of ownership.
violence
▪ The ensuing communal violence was the worst since the massacre of about 200 people in Hyderabad in October 1988.
▪ During this period, it is estimated that half a million people were slaughtered in the communal violence that flooded the country.
▪ His procession left behind it a trail of communal violence and death.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Researchers did a study of children raised in communal situations.
▪ The college has communal dining rooms, nurseries and clinics.
▪ The pasture is located on communal land.
▪ There are four bedrooms in the house, and a large communal kitchen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even while acknowledging such visible community cues, family stories may cut across communal meanings.
▪ If at all possible, it's wise to discuss attitudes to communal living before jointly moving in.
▪ On the other side of the door, the restaurant was experiencing a communal release of inhibition.
▪ Soon after Sri Lanka experienced another series of riots and communal disturbances which left thousands of refugees in temporary homes.
▪ The residents are able to enjoy the privacy of their own accommodation, together with the communal facilites offered within these projects.
▪ There was a dressing room adjacent to a communal shower, and there was a lot of steam.
▪ They were going to a communal kitchen for supper for all.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Communal

Communal \Com"mu*nal\ (? or ?), a. [Cf. F. communal.]

  1. Pertaining to a commune.

  2. resembling a commune[4] or the practises of a commune[4]; as, communal living.

    Syn: collectivist.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
communal

1811 in reference to communes; 1843 in reference to communities, from French communal (Old French comunal, 12c.), from Late Latin communalis, from communa (see commune (n.)).

Wiktionary
communal

a. 1 Pertaining to a community. 2 Shared by a community; public.

WordNet
communal
  1. adj. for or by a group rather than individuals; "dipping each his bread into a communal dish of stew"- Paul Roche; "a communal settlement in which all earnings and food were shared"; "a group effort"

  2. relating to a small administrative district or community; "communal elections in several European countries"

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "communal".

The peasants were stubbornly resistant to this approach, and the few hundred communal farms that had been created by true believers at the time of independence or in the wake of the Arusha Declaration had virtually all folded.

Up from well before sunrise to iong after dark, drowsy on some uncomfortable cot in a lousy communal shed, Easter decided that traveling was an overrated experience and longed for the comforts of the little shack that was home.

In fact, human society in pretechnological times was much more like that of the compassionate, communal and cultured Bushman hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari Desert than the Fuegians Darwin, with some justification, derided.

At Harlowtown she crossed the Musselshell River and passed the sign for Martinsdale, where, in recent weeks, many a Montanan would have sought the Hutterite colony to purchase their Christmas grain-fed goose from the German-speaking communal farmers who had fled religious persecution in Russia and Austria in the late 1800s.

Desperately they exercise their talent here, dreaming of bitter ale and meadowsweet but cut off for ever, yes for ever, from the Piccadilly flyover and the Hyde Park State Museum and the Communal Beerhall on Hammersmith Broadway.

The exterminations in Timor, the communal massacres in Meerut and Assam, the endless color-blind cataclysm of the earth.

Cage, reeling with soka, and intent on working her way through the entire roster of the young Lordsmen in a sort of communal coi.

Which, considering she was sitting naked in a communal sweatbox, showed how drunk Kelly had become.

That is contrived lest the unspottedness of communal life should breed self-righteousness.

Most of the abbots and masters in the hall recited communal prayer now, as Jilseponie should have been doing, but Abbot Olin was not praying for the health and wisdom of Father Abbot Fio Bou-raiy.

The single-minded arthropods were not the first example of communal living they had observed among the Xican fauna, but they were by far the most attractive and amusing.

I lit a hexy burner, put the grenade box on top, and the blokes tipped in their sachets of beef stew and rice for a communal scoff.

There were separate offices for each psychologist and a communal conference area where Scott Burrows had hosted their argumentative seminars to occupy the empty days.

What sort of culture, what kind of oral tradition would chimpanzees establish after a few hundred or a few thousand years of communal use of a complex gestural language?

The crop is afterwards used for loans to the poorer commoners, mostly free grants, or for the orphans and widows, or for the village church, or for the school, or for repaying a communal debt.