Definition of "communal" []

Of or relating to a commune. (adjective)
Of or relating to a community. (adjective)
Of, belonging to, or shared by the people of a community; public. (adjective)
Marked by collective ownership and control of goods and property. (adjective)

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Use "communal" in a sentence

"The primary assemblies, composed of the tenth of the general population, nominated the local _list of communal candidates_; electoral colleges, also nominated by them, selected from the _communal list_ the superior list of provincial candidates and from the _provincial list_, the list of national candidates."
"In the post, the term communal Gelassenheit is used."
"The historian said that the term communal harmony has been "overly heightened" in our society."

Words like "communal"

agricultural civic collective collectivist

colonial common ecclesiastical ethical

ethnic inner monsoonal municipal

national tribal tribunal