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Communal vs Widespread - What's the difference?

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Communal is a related term of widespread.


As adjectives the difference between communal and widespread

is that communal is pertaining to a community while widespread is affecting a large area (eg the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.

communal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a community.
  • Shared by a community; public.

    • widespread

    English

    Adjective

  • Affecting a large area (e.g. the entire land or body); broad in extent; widely diffused.
  • *
  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
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    Synonyms

    * extensive, pervasive, prevalent, ubiquitous, universal

    Antonyms

    * limited