house-commune
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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)."