communal

adjective

/kəˈmjuːnl/, /ˈkɒmjənl/

/kəˈmjuːnl/

jump to other results

shared by, or for the use of, a number of people, especially people who live together synonym shared
- a communal kitchen/garden, etc.
- As a student he tried communal living for a few years.
Extra Examples
- 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.
Topics Houses and homesb2
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’.

单词	communal
释义	communal adjective /kəˈmjuːnl/, /ˈkɒmjənl/ /kəˈmjuːnl/ jump to other results shared by, or for the use of, a number of people, especially people who live together synonym shared a communal kitchen/garden, etc. As a student he tried communal living for a few years. Extra Examples 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. Topics Houses and homesb2 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’.
随便看	sparseness spartan spasm spasmodic spasmodically spastic spat spat_1 spatchcock spate spatial spatially spatter spatula spawn spawn_1 spawn_2 spay spaza SPCA spca speak -speak speak_1 speakeasy