Communal

Definition: Communal

Communal

Adjective

1. For or by a group rather than individuals; "dipping each his bread into a communal dish of stew"- Paul Roche; "a communal settlement in which all earnings and food were shared"; "a group effort".

2. Relating to a small administrative district or community; "communal elections in several European countries".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "communal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Etymology: Communal \Com"mu*nal\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression communal.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Communal

Crosswords: Communal

Books

• A Retreat With the Psalms: Resources for Personal and Communal Prayer (reference)

• America's Communal Utopias (reference)

• And the Flames Did Not Consume Us : A Rabbi's Journey Through Communal Crisis (reference)

• Jewish Polity and American Civil Society: Communal Agencies and Religious Movements in the American Public Square (reference)

• Minefields in Their Hearts: The Mental Health of Children in War and Communal Violence (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Communal Societies (reference)

• Journal Of Jewish Communal Service (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Food in Britain. This poultry club in England has been organized by a group of air raid wardens on a communal basis. By forming a group, they get rationed feed for the hens and share the eggs. The enterprise is conducted in one of the most aristocratic of. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In those parts of the preceding line which do not coincide with administrative boundaries, the Commission will endeavour to keep to the line indicated, while taking into consideration, so far as is possible, local economic interests and existing communal boundaries. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Free and secret communal (local) elections were held in the G.D.R. on May 6, and the CDU again won. (references)

To expand communal land holdings, for decades peasants have invaded private lands and petitioned for government recognition of the seizures. (references)

Local politics will certainly come into play - at least during the transition to a liberalized market, mostly due to the public ownership of many power distributors at communal level. (references)

Children

Mongolia

The society has a long tradition of support for communal raising of children. (references)

India

In February 2000 the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern "about the sexual abuse and exploitation of children, especially those belonging to the lower castes and from poor urban and rural areas, in the contexts of: Religious and traditional culture; child domestic workers; children living and/or working on the streets; communal violence and ethnic conflict; abuse by security forces in areas of conflict, such as Jammu and Kashmir and the northeastern states; and trafficking and commercial exploitation, especially girls from neighboring countries, particularly Nepal. (references)

Civil Liberties

Morocco

Baha'is are forbidden to meet or participate in communal activities. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

Widespread communal violence followed, especially in Calcutta. (references)

Sri Lanka

Laws pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance are communal. (references)

Fiji

Many traditional institutions, including the system of communal land ownership, were maintained. (references)

Human Rights

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

He reported that prisoners use a communal pit as a latrine. (references)

Mauritania

Female prisoners have separate facilities with a communal garden. (references)

Rwanda

The ICRC continued its visits to communal jails and military-supervised jails. (references)

Indigenous People

Honduras

Indigenous land rights are communal. (references)

Philippines

It awards such "ancestral domain lands" on the basis of communal rather than individual ownership, impeding sale of the lands by tribal leaders. (references)

Japan

The law also left the Ainu with control of only approximately 0.15 percent of their original land holdings and empowered the Government to manage communal assets. (references)

Minorities

Nigeria

On April 27, approximately 14 persons were killed in communal clashes between members of the Tiv and Kwala ethnic groups in Plateau State. (references)

East Timor

There were isolated instances of communal and sectarian violence during the year, although such incidents also had strong political and cultural undertones. (references)

Nigeria

Most of the indigenes of the feuding communities are displaced in neighboring villages; hospitals in Onitsha continued to treat victims of the communal violence. (references)

Political Economy

Guinea

The communal elections of June 2000 were marked by violence, intimidation, and inconsistencies. (references)

Morocco

Cities and rural communes elect communal councils headed by presidents chosen by the council members. (references)

Guinea

Former Prime Minister Sidya Touré heads a new political party, Union des Forces Republicaines (UFR), thatpresented candidates for the June 2000 communal elections. (references)

Political Rights

Cyprus

Under the 1960 Constitution, voting takes place on a communal basis. (references)

Madagascar

In November 1999, communal elections were held in which AREMA won more than 40 percent of the mayoral races. (references)

Switzerland

Women occupy 55 of the 246 seats in the Parliament, 2 of 7 seats in the Federal Council (Cabinet), roughly one-fourth of the seats in the cantonal government executive bodies, and one-fifth of the seats in the communal executives. (references)

Trade

Switzerland

Cantonal and communal governments offer a wider variety of incentives, including financing, for investment projects in their respective areas. (references)

Ukraine

Our activities address the urgent humanitarian and health needs of the people of Ukraine by: 1) supporting the government in moving from universal housing and communal services subsidies to targeted social services; 2) providing humanitarian assistance and strengthening the ability of non-governmental organizations to deliver social services; 3) laying the foundation for a sustainable system of pensions and social insurance; 4) providing training and supplies to improve the quality of and access to reproductive health care and the screening for and treatment of breast cancer; 5) supporting health partnerships for the promotion of primary health care and exchange of information, training and personnel; 6) providing thyroid cancer screening and psycho-social interventions to child victims of the Chernobyl accident, while strengthening the Ukrainian government's ability to respond to health and environmental crises; and 7) providing technical assistance in addressing both the TB and the STI/HIV/AIDS epidemics. (references)

Women

Guinea

Divorce laws generally tend to favor men in awarding custody and dividing communal assets. (references)

Worker Rights

Namibia

Children below the age of 14 often worked on family-owned commercial farms and in the informal sector, and some also worked in communal areas. (references)

Cameroon

The authorities continued to allow prison inmates to be contracted out to private employers or used as communal labor for municipal public works. (references)

Zambia

The Government also can require citizens to perform labor that is associated with traditional civil or communal obligations, as when all members of a village are called upon to assist in preparing for a visit by a traditional leader or other dignitary. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "communal": communal lands holder ♦ communal property ♦ communal spirit ♦ communal work ♦ communal worker. Additional references.

Beginning with "communal": communal-like.

Ending with "communal": inter-communal.

Albanian

shoqëror (familiar, folksy, pragmatic, public, social), komunal (municipal, public), i përbashkët (collective, common, concerted, corporate, joint, mutual, United), i komunës. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كوميوني طائفة, ‏مميز لحياة إجتماعية بسيطة, ‏طائفي (sectarian), ‏ذو علاقة بعامة الشعب, ‏إشتراكي (socialist, socialistic), ‏شيوعي (communist, communistic, red), ‏شعبي (bronchial, classless, demotic, folk, pop, popular, public, vulgar). (various references)

Bulgarian 

характерен за комуна, комунален (municipal), колективен (collective), обществен (common, open, public, social), общ (aggregate, blanket, broad, collective, common, corporate, general, generic, global, impersonal, joint, omnibus, overall, solid, total, wide), за общо ползуване. (various references)

Chinese 

共同 (Common). (various references)

Czech

spoleèný (combined, commensal, common, conjoint, United), obecní (municipal, parochial), komunální. (various references)

Danish

sogneomraade (communal area, village area), sogneareal (communal area, village area), Magistrat (communal administration, municipal adminstration), kommuneomraade (communal area, village area). (various references)

Dutch

terugneming van het huwelijksgoed (retaking of personalty not included in communal estate), goederen van de huwelijksgemeenschap (communal estate, Community property, joint estate of husband and wife), goederen van de gemeenschap (communal estate, Community property, joint estate of husband and wife), gemeenschap van vruchten en inkomsten (communal estate of husband and wife comprising only property acquired after their marriage), gemeenschap van aanwinsten (communal estate of husband and wife comprising only property acquired after their marriage), gemeenschap tot de aanwinsten beperkt (communal estate of husband and wife comprising only property acquired after their marriage). (various references)

Farsi 

همگانی (General, Public, Universal), اشتراکی (Collective). (various references)

Finnish

yhteisalue (communal area, village area), puolison yksityisen omaisuuden erottaminen yhteisestä omaisuudesta osituksessa ennen varsinaista jakoa (retaking of personalty not included in communal estate), kylän alue (communal area, village area), keskusantenni (communal TV aerial), aviopuolisoiden yhteinen omaisuus (communal estate, Community property, joint estate of husband and wife), ansio-omaisuuden järjestelmä (communal estate of husband and wife comprising only property acquired after their marriage). (various references)

French

communautaire (communard), commun (common, common or garden), collectif (collective, common), populaire (common), de la communauté. (various references)

German

kommunal (local, municipal). (various references)

Greek 

κοινόσ (banal, common, commonplace, mutual, ordinary, stock), κοινόχρηστοσ, κοινοτικόσ (parochial), ανήκων εισ πολλούσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ק�"לתי (congregational, parochial), ע�"תי, צבורי (congregational, public). (various references)

Hungarian

kommunális, közösségi (common, corporate, public), községi (municipal, rating). (various references)

Indonesian

komunal. (various references)

Italian

comunale (city-, municipal, public, town-), della comunit� . (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

公共 (community, public, public service, society), 共�"� (common use). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうよう (coercion, common use, cultivation, culture, education, extortion, offer for use, refinement), �"うきょう (affidavit, Catholicism, community, deposition, healthy economy, prosperous conditions, public, public service, reverberation, society, the Book of Filial Piety, width, width and narrowness, your instructions or suggestions). (various references)

Korean 

자치단체. (various references)

Manx

co-chadjin (collective). (various references)

Pig Latin

ommunalcay

Portuguese

comunal, comum (accepted, accredited, appellative, blanket, cheap, common, commonplace, demotic, everyday, garden, general, habitual, inelaborate, joint, mutual, ordinary, public, run-of-the-mill, usual, vulgar, vulgarian), popular (common, demotic, exoteric, pinup, popular), público (audience, civil, community, general, notorious, official, public). (various references)

Romanian

comunal, comun (banal, base, common, current, everyday, frequent, general, joint, low, mediocre, mutual, ordinary, rife, universal, usual, vulgar). (various references)

Russian 

общественный (common, community, public, social). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

komunalan, javni (open, public). (various references)

Spanish

comunal (township, village), común (common, commonalty, commonplace, community, current, dismal, extensive, familiar, generous, indistinctive, joint, mutual, ordinary, prevailing, rife, team, trite, usual, widespread). (various references)

Swedish

kommunal (civic, municipal), kommun-, kollektiv (aggregate, collective, commune, corporate), gemensam (collective, common, concerted, corporate, joint, mutual, United). (various references)

Turkish

umumi (general), toplumsal (social), müşterek (collective, common, consociate, joint, mutual), halkın malı olan, halk (demo-, demos, folk, grass roots, people, populace, popular, public, the community, the crowd, the million, the people, the vulgar, vulgar). (various references)

Ukrainian

комунальний (public), общинний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

chung (broad, common, general, public, universal), công (common, public). (various references)

Welsh

cymunol. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "communal": communalism, communalisms, communalist, communalists, communalities, communality, communalize, communalized, communalizes, communalizing, communally. (additional references)

Words ending with "communal": intercommunal. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Communal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: communale, communales, Communeau, communi, communial, comuni, comunic, Domhnall. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: column.

-3 letters: comal, comma, locum, macon.

-4 letters: alum, ammo, calm, calo, caul, clam, clan, clon, coal, cola, coma, culm, loam, loan, loca, luna, malm, mano, maul, maun, moan, mola, muon, noma, ulan, ulna, unco.

-5 letters: amu, cam, can, col, con, cum, lac, lam, lum, mac, man, moa, moc, mol, mom, mon, mum, mun, nam.

+2 letters: communally.

+3 letters: communalism, communalist, communality, communalize.

+4 letters: communalisms, communalists, communalized, communalizes, communicable, communicably, consummately, incommutable, incommutably, uncommercial.

+5 letters: commensurable, commensurably, communalities, communalizing, immunological, intercommunal, monomolecular.