The apartment building featured a communal garden where residents could grow vegetables and socialize during warm months.
这栋公寓楼设有一个公共花园，居民可以在温暖的月份里种植蔬菜并相互交流。
Archaeologists excavating a Bronze Age settlement found large storage jars filled with charred grain in nearly every household they examined, alongside no evidence of a centralized granary or communal storage building anywhere in the settlement.
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Which choice best defines “communal”?
C — Shared by a group. “communal” means shared by a group.
Which word means “shared by a group”?
C — communal. “communal” means shared by a group.
communal — shared by a group. In Chinese: 公共的，共有的.
communal is pronounced /ˈkɒmjʊnəl/.
The apartment building featured a communal garden where residents could grow vegetables and socialize during warm months. (这栋公寓楼设有一个公共花园，居民可以在温暖的月份里种植蔬菜并相互交流。)
shared, collective, public — all close in meaning to communal (shared by a group).
private, individual — each the opposite of communal (shared by a group).
Yes. communal is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.