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communal

adj
/kəˈmjuː.nəl/UK/kəˈmju.nəl/CA/kəˈmjʉː.nəl/

Etymology

Borrowed from French communal, from Late Latin commūnālis, from Latin commūnis. Doublet of cominal.

  1. derived from commūnis
  2. derived from commūnālis
  3. borrowed from communal

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to a community or a commune.

  2. Shared by a community

    Shared by a community; public.

  3. Defined by religious ideas

    Defined by religious ideas; based on religion.

    • communal violence
    • communal politics

The neighborhood

Derived

bicommunal, communal bin, communalect, communalise, communalism, communalistic, communality, communalize, communally, communal shower, ecocommunal, intercommunal, intracommunal, multicommunal, noncommunal, pseudocommunal, uncommunal

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA