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"dipping each his bread into a communal dish of stew" "a communal settlement in which all earnings and food were shared"adjectivefor or by a group rather than individuals
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"communal elections in several European countries"relating to a small administrative district or community
Definition that contains communal
- social a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity
- pool any communal combination of funds
- beats a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
- bee a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions
- mixer a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity
- sociable a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity
- shaker a member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation from the world
- pueblo a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States
- monastic of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
- refectory a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery)