com·mu·nal
adjective/kəˈmjuːnl/, /ˈkɒmjənl/
/kəˈmjuːnl/
- 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 homesb2- He 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共的。 - Water is fetched daily from a communal tap in the centre of the village.
每天从村中心的公共水龙头取水。
- a communal kitchen/garden, etc.
- 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
- communal violence between religious groups
Word Originearly 19th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to a commune, especially the Paris Commune’): from French, from late Latin communalis, from communis ‘common’.