1 shared by, or for the use of, a number of people, especially people who live together:
a communal kitchen / garden * As a student he tried communal living for a few years.
2 involving different groups of people in a community:
communal violence between religious groups
communally adverb:
The property was owned communally.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for communal is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is communal a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, communal is tagged as adjective.
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