house-commune
house-commune noun: a communal housing structure built as part of an architectural and social movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920–1930s.
Noun
house-commune (plural house-communes)
- A communal housing structure built as part of an architectural and social movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920–1930s.
- The newly constructed house-communes were, in fact, modest in their communal arrangements.1979, Alena Heitlinger, Women and State Socialism, →ISBN, page 82
- 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.1993, Public Culture, page 276
Forms of house-commune
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Origin of house-commune
Calque of Russian дом-коммуна (dom-kommuna, “house-commune”)
Questions about house-commune
- What does house-commune mean?
- House-commune means a communal housing structure built as part of an architectural and social movement in the Soviet Union in the 1920–1930s.
- What part of speech is house-commune?
- House-commune is a noun.
- What is the plural of house-commune?
- The plural of house-commune is house-communes.
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