adjective
communal
relating to a small administrative district or community
In a sentence
Six example sentences with communal, each labelled with its topic.
The housing block wraps around a communal courtyard where every apartment's kitchen window looks onto the same shared garden.
Architecture
Medieval Italian towns ran communal councils that collected their own tolls and hired mercenaries without asking any prince.
History
Every family brought one pot to the communal table, and by noon the square held forty different stews.
Cooking
Voters in the village choose their mayor in communal elections that draw higher turnout than any national contest.
Politics
The communal bathhouse charges a few coins, and travelers scrub beside farmers at the end of the market day.
Travel
Communal singing opens every village festival, with the whole square joining the same old harvest song by the second verse.
Music
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- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
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