ENGLISH DICTIONARY

House-commune

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: House-commune is a noun meaning A communal housing structure built as part of an architectural and social movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920–1930s.

Meaning

A communal housing structure built as part of an architectural and social movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920–1930s.

Example Sentences

The newly constructed house-communes were, in fact, modest in their communal arrangements.
Although its name and conception bears some resemblance to many projects of utopian architecture -- house-communes and communist homes -- it was tecnically born out of Lenin's head.
Communal apartments shared the utopian constructivist ideas with the house-commune in that they also had common areas of use such as the communal kitchens and bathrooms (Utekhin 2003).

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include kommunalka, community, microdistrict, homespace, co-op, commorancy.

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