communication

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• Received-Pronunciation: /kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
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• Canada, General-American: /kəˌmju.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
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• Australian: /kəˌmjʉː.nɪˈkæɪ.ʃən/
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• New-Zealand: /kəˌmjʉː.nəˈkæɪ.ʃən/
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• rhymes with -eɪʃən
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• CMU ARPABET: K AH0 M Y UW2 N AH0 K EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English comunicacioun, communicacion (“discussion, association”), from Old French communicacion, from Latin commūnicātiōnem, accusative singular of commūnicātiō (“imparting, communicating”), from commūnicō (“to share, to impart”). Morphologically communicate + -ion.

294 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Danish: kommunikation — act or fact of communicating anything
• Esperanto: komunikado — act or fact of communicating anything
• Finnish: kommunikointi — act or fact of communicating anything
• Finnish: kommunikaatio — act or fact of communicating anything
• Finnish: viestintä — act or fact of communicating anything
• Finnish: välitys — act or fact of communicating anything
• French: communication — act or fact of communicating anything
• Galician: comunicación — act or fact of communicating anything
• Georgian: კომუნიკაცია (ḳomuniḳacia) — act or fact of communicating anything
• German: Kommunikation — act or fact of communicating anything
• Hungarian: kommunikáció — act or fact of communicating anything
• Hungarian: átadás — act or fact of communicating anything
• Hungarian: továbbadás — act or fact of communicating anything
• Hungarian: továbbítás — act or fact of communicating anything
• Hungarian: átvitel — act or fact of communicating anything
• Indonesian: komunikasi — act or fact of communicating anything
• Italian: comunicazione — act or fact of communicating anything
• Javanese: sambung rembug — act or fact of communicating anything
• Oromo: quunnamtii — act or fact of communicating anything
• Portuguese: comunicação — act or fact of communicating anything
• Romanian: comunicare — act or fact of communicating anything
• Russian: распростране́ние (rasprostranénije) — act or fact of communicating anything
• Russian: переда́ча (peredáča) — act or fact of communicating anything
• Russian: сообще́ние (soobščénije) — act or fact of communicating anything
• Spanish: comunicación — act or fact of communicating anything
• Swedish: kommunikation — act or fact of communicating anything
• Tagalog: komunikasyon — act or fact of communicating anything
• Tetum: komunikasaun — act or fact of communicating anything
• Turkish: iletişim — act or fact of communicating anything
• Turkish: komünikasyon — act or fact of communicating anything
• Ottoman Turkish: اخبار (ihbar) — act or fact of communicating anything
• Albanian: komunikim — concept of exchanging information
• Arabic: اِتِّصَالَات (ittiṣālāt) — concept of exchanging information
• Arabic: اِتِّصَال (ittiṣāl) — concept of exchanging information
• Armenian: հաղորդակցություն (haġordakcʻutʻyun) — concept of exchanging information
• Armenian: կապ (kap) — concept of exchanging information
• Azerbaijani: əlaqə — concept of exchanging information
• Azerbaijani: rabitə — concept of exchanging information
• Azerbaijani: kommunikasiya — concept of exchanging information
• Azerbaijani: ünsiyyət — concept of exchanging information
• Belarusian: камуніка́цыя (kamunikácyja) — concept of exchanging information
• Belarusian: зно́сіны (znósiny) — concept of exchanging information
• Bengali: যোগাযোগ (jōgajōg) — concept of exchanging information
• Bulgarian: общу́ване (obštúvane) — concept of exchanging information
• Bulgarian: обще́ние (obšténie) — concept of exchanging information
• Bulgarian: връ́зка (vrǎ́zka) — concept of exchanging information
• Bulgarian: комуника́ция (komunikácija) — concept of exchanging information
• Burmese: ဆက်သွယ်ရေး (hcakswaire:) — concept of exchanging information
• Catalan: comunicació — concept of exchanging information
• Chinese Cantonese: 通信 — concept of exchanging information
• Chinese Cantonese: 溝通 /沟通 (kau1 tung1 / gau1 tung1) — concept of exchanging information
• Chinese Cantonese: 交流 (gaau1 lau4) — concept of exchanging information
• Chinese Mandarin: 通信 (tōngxìn) — concept of exchanging information
• Chinese Mandarin: 溝通 /沟通 (gōutōng) — concept of exchanging information
• Chinese Mandarin: 交流 (jiāoliú) — concept of exchanging information
• Czech: dorozumívání — concept of exchanging information
• Czech: komunikace — concept of exchanging information
• Danish: kommunikation — concept of exchanging information
• Danish: forbindelse — concept of exchanging information
• Dutch: communicatie — concept of exchanging information
• Dutch: verbinding — concept of exchanging information
• Estonian: kommunikatsioon — concept of exchanging information
• Estonian: side — concept of exchanging information
• Faroese: samskifti — concept of exchanging information
• Finnish: yhteydenpito — concept of exchanging information
• Finnish: kommunikaatio — concept of exchanging information
• Finnish: viestintä — concept of exchanging information
• French: communication — concept of exchanging information
• Galician: comunicación — concept of exchanging information
• Georgian: კომუნიკაცია (ḳomuniḳacia) — concept of exchanging information
• German: Kommunikation — concept of exchanging information
• German: Informationsaustausch — concept of exchanging information
• Greek: επικοινωνία (epikoinonía) — concept of exchanging information
• Greenlandic: attaveqaqatigiinneq — concept of exchanging information
• Hebrew: תקשורת \ תִּקְשֹׁרֶת (tikshóret) — concept of exchanging information
• Hebrew: קֶשֶׁר (késher) — concept of exchanging information
• Hindi: संचार (sañcār) — concept of exchanging information
• Hungarian: érintkezés — concept of exchanging information
• Hungarian: közlés — concept of exchanging information
• Hungarian: kommunikáció — concept of exchanging information
• Hungarian: kapcsolat — concept of exchanging information
• Hungarian: kapcsolattartás — concept of exchanging information
• Hungarian: hírközlés — concept of exchanging information
• Hungarian: távközlés — concept of exchanging information
• Hungarian: híradástechnika — concept of exchanging information
• Icelandic: samskipti — concept of exchanging information
• Ido: komuniko — concept of exchanging information
• Indonesian: komunikasi — concept of exchanging information
• Irish: cumarsáid — concept of exchanging information
• Italian: comunicazione — concept of exchanging information
• Japanese: 交流 (kōryū) — concept of exchanging information
• Japanese: 対話 (taiwa) — concept of exchanging information
• Japanese: 遣り取り (yaritori) — concept of exchanging information
• Japanese: 通信 (tsūshin) — concept of exchanging information
• Japanese: コミュニケーション (komyunikēshon) — concept of exchanging information
• Japanese: 意思疎通 (ishi sotsuu) — concept of exchanging information
• Kazakh: қатынасу (qatynasu) — concept of exchanging information
• Kazakh: байланыс (bailanys) — concept of exchanging information
• Kazakh: қарым-қатынас (qarym-qatynas) — concept of exchanging information
• Khmer: គមនាគមន៍ (kumməniəkum) — concept of exchanging information
• Korean: 통신 (tongsin) — concept of exchanging information
• Korean: 커뮤니케이션 (keomyunikeisyeon) — concept of exchanging information
• Korean: 소통 (sotong) — concept of exchanging information
• Korean: 의사소통 (uisasotong) — concept of exchanging information
• Kyrgyz: коммуникация (kommunikatsiya) — concept of exchanging information
• Kyrgyz: катташуу (kattaşuu) — concept of exchanging information
• Kyrgyz: катышуу (katışuu) — concept of exchanging information
• Lao: ການສື່ສານ (kān sư̄ sān) — concept of exchanging information
• Lao: ຄົມມະນາຄົມ (khom ma nā khom) — concept of exchanging information
• Latin: commūnicātiō — concept of exchanging information
• Latvian: saziņa — concept of exchanging information
• Latvian: komunikācija — concept of exchanging information
• Lithuanian: bendravimas — concept of exchanging information
• Lithuanian: komunikacija — concept of exchanging information
• Macedonian: комуникација (komunikacija) — concept of exchanging information
• Macedonian: општење (opštenje) — concept of exchanging information
• Malay: perhubungan — concept of exchanging information
• Malay: komunikasi — concept of exchanging information
• Marathi: दळणवळण (daḷṇavḷaṇ) — concept of exchanging information
• Marathi: संदेशवहन (sandeśavhan) — concept of exchanging information
• Mongolian: харилцаа (xarilcaa) — concept of exchanging information
• Norwegian Bokmål: kommunikasjon — concept of exchanging information
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kommunikasjon — concept of exchanging information
• Iranian Persian: اِرْتِباط (ertebât) — concept of exchanging information
• Iranian Persian: اِبْلاغ (eblâġ) — concept of exchanging information
• Polish: komunikacja — concept of exchanging information
• Portuguese: comunicação — concept of exchanging information
• Romanian: comunicare — concept of exchanging information
• Romanian: comunicație — concept of exchanging information
• Russian: коммуника́ция (kommunikácija) — concept of exchanging information
• Russian: обще́ние (obščénije) — concept of exchanging information
• Russian: связь (svjazʹ) — concept of exchanging information
• Russian: сообще́ние (soobščénije) — concept of exchanging information
• Sanskrit: संचार (saṃcāra) — concept of exchanging information
• Sanskrit: सञ्चार (sañcāra) — concept of exchanging information
• Serbo-Croatian: комуника́ција — concept of exchanging information
• Serbo-Croatian: komunikácija — concept of exchanging information
• Slovak: komunikácia — concept of exchanging information
• Slovak: dorozumenie — concept of exchanging information
• Slovene: komunikacija — concept of exchanging information
• Slovene: občevanje — concept of exchanging information
• Slovene: odnos — concept of exchanging information
• Spanish: comunicación — concept of exchanging information
• Swahili: mawasiliano — concept of exchanging information
• Swedish: kommunikation — concept of exchanging information
• Tagalog: pahatiran — concept of exchanging information
• Tagalog: komunikasyon — concept of exchanging information
• Tajik: иртибот (irtibot) — concept of exchanging information
• Tajik: иблоғ (ibloġ) — concept of exchanging information
• Thai: การสื่อสาร (gaan-sʉ̀ʉ-sǎan) — concept of exchanging information
• Thai: คมนาคม (ká-má-naa-kom) — concept of exchanging information
• Turkish: komünikasyon — concept of exchanging information
• Turkish: iletişim — concept of exchanging information
• Ukrainian: комуніка́ція (komunikácija) — concept of exchanging information
• Ukrainian: спілкува́ння (spilkuvánnja) — concept of exchanging information
• Urdu: اِبْلاغ (iblāġ) — concept of exchanging information
• Urdu: رابْطَہ (rābta) — concept of exchanging information
• Urdu: مُواصَلات (muāsalāt) — concept of exchanging information
• Urdu: رابِطَہ (rābita) — concept of exchanging information
• Uzbek: kommunikatsiya — concept of exchanging information
• Uzbek: munosabat — concept of exchanging information
• Uzbek: aloqa — concept of exchanging information
• Vietnamese: truyền thông — concept of exchanging information
• Welsh: cyfathrebiad — concept of exchanging information
• Welsh: cymunicasiwn — concept of exchanging information
• Yiddish: קאָמוניקאַציע (komunikatsye) — concept of exchanging information
• Arabic: رِسَالَة (risāla) — message
• Arabic: خَبَر (ḵabar) — message
• Arabic: مَعْلُومَة (maʕlūma) — message
• Armenian: հաղորդագրություն (haġordagrutʻyun) — message
• Belarusian: паведамле́нне (pavjedamljénnje) — message
• Belarusian: паведамле́ньне (pavjedamljénʹnje) — message
• Bulgarian: съобще́ние (sǎobšténie) — message
• Chinese Mandarin: 訊息 /讯息 (xùnxí) — message
• Czech: zpráva — message
• Finnish: yhteydenotto — message
• Finnish: viesti — message
• French: communication — message
• French: message — message
• Galician: comunicado — message
• German: Kommunikation — message
• German: Mitteilung — message
• Greek: επικοινωνία (epikoinonía) — message
• Hebrew: מֶסֶר (méser) — message
• Hebrew: הוֹדָעָה (hoda'á) — message
• Hindi: सन्देश (sandeś) — message
• Hungarian: értesítés — message
• Hungarian: közlemény — message
• Hungarian: híradás — message
• Hungarian: hír — message
• Hungarian: üzenet — message
• Italian: avviso — message
• Japanese: 伝言 (dengon) — message
• Korean: 소식 (sosik) — message
• Macedonian: порака (poraka) — message
• Marathi: संदेश (sandeś) — message
• Norwegian Bokmål: kommunikasjon — message
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kommunikasjon — message
• Iranian Persian: پَیام (payâm) — message
• Iranian Persian: پِیْغام (peyġâm) — message
• Iranian Persian: خَبَر (xabar) — message
• Iranian Persian: رِسالِه (resâle) — message
• Polish: wiadomość — message
• Portuguese: comunicação — message
• Portuguese: comunicado — message
• Romanian: comunicare — message
• Romanian: veste — message
• Romanian: știre — message
• Romanian: mesaj — message
• Russian: сообще́ние (soobščénije) — message
• Serbo-Croatian: саопће́ње — message
• Serbo-Croatian: по̏рука — message
• Serbo-Croatian: по̀сланица — message
• Serbo-Croatian: saopćénje — message
• Serbo-Croatian: pȍruka — message
• Serbo-Croatian: pòslanica — message
• Slovak: správa — message
• Slovene: sporočilo — message
• Spanish: comunicado — message
• Swedish: kommunikation — message
• Tagalog: pahatid — message
• Tagalog: mensahe — message
• Tajik: пайом (payom) — message
• Tajik: рисола (risola) — message
• Tajik: хабар (xabar) — message
• Turkish: mesaj — message
• Ukrainian: повідо́млення (povidómlennja) — message
• Urdu: رِسالَہ (risāla) — message
• Urdu: پَیغام (paiġām) — message
• Uzbek: xabar — message
• Uzbek: risola — message
• Bulgarian: съобще́ние (sǎobšténie) — body of data exchange
• Chinese Mandarin: 通訊設施 /通讯设施 (tōngxìn shèshī) — body of data exchange
• Finnish: sanoma — body of data exchange
• French: communication — body of data exchange
• German: Kommunikationsdaten — body of data exchange
• Hungarian: üzenetváltás — body of data exchange
• Hungarian: levelezés — body of data exchange
• Hungarian: kommunikáció — body of data exchange
• Italian: comunicazione — body of data exchange
• Norwegian Bokmål: kommunikasjon — body of data exchange
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kommunikasjon — body of data exchange
• Russian: сообще́ние (soobščénije) — body of data exchange
• Turkish: veri transferi — body of data exchange
• Chinese Mandarin: 通信 (tōngxìn) — instance of data transfer
• Finnish: kanssakäyminen — instance of data transfer
• French: communication — instance of data transfer
• German: Kommunikation — instance of data transfer
• Hebrew: מֶסֶר (méser) — instance of data transfer
• Hebrew: הוֹדָעָה (hoda'á) — instance of data transfer
• Hungarian: kapcsolattartás — instance of data transfer
• Hungarian: érintkezés — instance of data transfer
• Hungarian: üzenetváltás — instance of data transfer
• Hungarian: kommunikáció — instance of data transfer
• Italian: comunicazione — instance of data transfer
• Italian: trasmissione — instance of data transfer
• Norwegian Bokmål: kommunikasjon — instance of data transfer
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kommunikasjon — instance of data transfer
• Russian: сообще́ние (soobščénije) — instance of data transfer
• Swedish: kommunikation — instance of data transfer
• Tagalog: pahatiran — instance of data transfer
• Turkish: iletişim — instance of data transfer
• Finnish: kulkuyhteys — passageway or opening
• German: Durchgang — passageway or opening
• Hebrew: מַעֲבָר (ma'avár) — passageway or opening
• Hungarian: összeköttetés — passageway or opening
• Hungarian: átjáró — passageway or opening
• Hungarian: átjárás — passageway or opening
• Hungarian: kapcsolat — passageway or opening
• Hungarian: kapcsolódás — passageway or opening
• Italian: comunicazione — passageway or opening
• Italian: collegamento — passageway or opening
• Polish: komunikacja — passageway or opening
• Portuguese: comunicação — passageway or opening
• Romanian: comunicație — passageway or opening
• Russian: сообще́ние (soobščénije) — passageway or opening
• Turkish: geçit — passageway or opening
• Turkish: pasaj — passageway or opening
• Finnish: kommunikaatio — connection between tissues
• Finnish: yhteys — connection between tissues
• French: communication — connection between tissues
• German: Verbindung — connection between tissues
• Italian: comunicazione — connection between tissues
• Malay: komunikasi — connection between tissues
• Portuguese: comunicação — connection between tissues
• Portuguese: conexão — connection between tissues
• Romanian: legătură — connection between tissues
• Turkish: bağlantı — connection between tissues
• Hungarian: áldozás — participation in Holy Communion
• Hungarian: szentáldozás — participation in Holy Communion
• Hungarian: úrvacsora — participation in Holy Communion
• Italian: comunione — participation in Holy Communion
• Portuguese: comunhão — participation in Holy Communion
• Russian: причаще́ние (pričaščénije) — participation in Holy Communion