shared by, or for the use of, a number of people, especially people who live together （尤指居住在一起的人）共享的，共有的，共用的 a communal kitchen/garden, etc. 共用的厨房、花园等 As a student he tried communal living for a few years. 当学生时他尝试过几年集体生活。 🔊🔊
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesb2He led me down the corridor to the communal kitchen. 他带我走过通往共用厨房的过道。 The gardens surrounding the building were communal. 建筑物周围的花园是公用的。 Water is fetched daily from a communal tap in the centre of the village. 每天从村庄中心的公共水龙头取水。
involving different groups of people in a community （集体中）不同群体的，各团体的 communal violence between religious groups 不同教派之间的暴力冲突
Word Originearly 19th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to a commune, especially the Paris Commune’): from French, from late Latin communalis, from communis ‘common’.