house-communes
house-communes is the plural of house-commune.
Meaning of house-commune
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
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- What is house-communes the plural of?
- House-communes is the plural of house-commune.
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