They arrived in Southern Rhodesia, and there was a choice of an immigrants' camp, consisting of mud huts with a communal water supply, or a hotel; and they chose the hotel, being what are known as people of means.
Source: tatoeba (307260)
Communal
//kəˈmju.nəl//
Synonyms for "communal" (66 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (33)
Related word relations
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Related terms
2 entriesderived
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
has context
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
50 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- колективен adj (pertaining to a community)
- комунален adj (pertaining to a community)
- обществен adj (shared by a community; public)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 公共的 adj (shared by a community; public)
- 社區的 /社区的 adj (pertaining to a community)
- 社群的 adj (pertaining to a community)
- 群體的 /群体的 adj (pertaining to a community)
Finnish
2 entries- yhteinen adj (shared by a community; public)
- yhteisöllinen adj (pertaining to a community)
French
2 entries- commun adj (shared by a community; public)
- communautaire adj (pertaining to a community)
Galician
2 entries- comunitario adj (pertaining to a community)
- común adj (shared by a community; public)
German
2 entries- gemeinschaftlich adj (pertaining to a community)
- kommunal adj (pertaining to a community)
Hebrew
2 entries- קהילתי adj (pertaining to a community)
- קהילתית adj (pertaining to a community)
Irish
4 entries- comhchoiteann adj (shared by a community; public)
- pobail adj (pertaining to a community)
- pobail adj (shared by a community; public)
- pobalda adj (pertaining to a community)
Italian
1 entries- comunitario adj (pertaining to a community)
Latin
1 entries- commūnālis adj (pertaining to a community)
Manx
1 entries- co-chadjin adj (shared by a community; public)
Portuguese
3 entries- comum adj (shared by a community; public)
- comunitário adj (pertaining to a community)
- público adj (shared by a community; public)
Romanian
2 entries- comunitar adj (pertaining to a community)
- public adj (shared by a community; public)
Russian
4 entries- коллекти́вный adj (shared by a community; public)
- коммуна́льный adj (pertaining to a community)
- коммуна́льный adj (shared by a community; public)
- о́бщий adj (shared by a community; public)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- komunalni adj (pertaining to a community)
- općedruštveni adj (pertaining to a community)
- zȁjedničkī adj (pertaining to a community)
- за̏једничкӣ adj (pertaining to a community)
Slovak
3 entries- komunitný adj (pertaining to a community)
- komunitný adj (shared by a community; public)
- verejný adj (shared by a community; public)
Spanish
1 entries- comunitario adj (pertaining to a community)
Swedish
3 entries- allmän adj (shared by a community; public)
- gemensam adj (shared by a community; public)
- samhällelig adj (pertaining to a community)
Telugu
1 entries- సామాజిక adj (pertaining to a community)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
There is a communal kitchen in the dormitory.
Source: tatoeba (2332742)
The apartment is cheap, but it only has communal bathrooms.
Source: tatoeba (2332743)
The communal aerial on our block of flats was struck by lightning.
Source: tatoeba (6174457)
Showing 4 of 12 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.