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Definition

related to a group rather than individuals

communal = shared

communal = related to a community where people live together bound by common interests

At the dorms, I miss my private bathroom, but I like not having to clean the communal one!

communal = shared

communal = related to a group rather than individuals

communal = by a community rather than by individuals

Several people, Poirot amongst them, remained in the dining-car. The communal life was felt, at the moment, to pass the time better.
Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express

communal = in a group

How could I even fantasize about going to some school far away where you pay a fortune to live in dorms full of strangers, with communal bathrooms and cafeterias and no private spaces to be crazy in?
John Green -- Turtles All the Way Down

communal = shared

All money was held by Bootsie and used communally.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

communally = in a manner where it was shared

...they chewed up and spat out the bark of a tree into a communal pot and then got drunk on it.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

communal = shared

It was assumed that when he was not working, eating, or sleeping he would be taking part in some kind of communal recreation: to do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous.
George Orwell -- 1984

communal = done with others

Most of the other girls had stayed in the communal showers for longer, gossiping, but Emily was too spaced out to join them.
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars

communal = shared

To give you one small example, Mrs. van D. has removed all but three of her sheets from our communal linen closet.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

communal = shared

But the entire situation there, especially in the beginning—the packed sleeping quarters, the communal mess halls, the open toilets—all this was an open insult to that other, private self, a slap in the face you were powerless to challenge.
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston -- Farewell to Manzanar

communal = shared

She washed her clothes in communal tubs, went to jamaicas on Saturday nights, and cared for her first three daughters.
Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising

communal = shared

communal elections in several European countries
The precolonial practice of enforced communal labor was greatly extended.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
The vision of a communal world had sunk down into his soul and it would never leave him until life left him.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
In the far left corner of the locker room was a small doorway that opened into a communal shower stall.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
Thus do you remain immersed in the communal tau.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
The two convents reopened and their communal life was resumed.
Albert Camus -- The Plague

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