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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Dated spelling of connection.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences (US spelling: connection).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: Methodism
Topics: lifestyle, religion
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The inter-relationship of prayer groups or religious societies under the oversight of an itinerant preacher who is assisted by the local preachers attached to each society.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle, religion
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: joining, connection
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change of integrity
Narrower terms: hit, interconnection, intersection, approximation, bringing close together, concatenation, convergence, converging, convergency, encounter, coming upon, articulation, junction, adjunction, fastening, attachment
noun
shifting from one form of transportation to another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: connection
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance
noun
an instrumentality that connects
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: connection, connector, connecter, connective
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: instrumentality, instrumentation
Narrower terms: attachment, bond, backbone, ground, earth, hitch, hookup, jumper, junction, conjunction, slip ring, telephone line, phone line, telephone circuit, subscriber line, line, temporary hookup, patch, yoke, coupling
noun
the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: association, connection
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: memory, remembering
Narrower terms: colligation
noun
a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: connection, connectedness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: relation
Narrower terms: series, alliance, bond, linkage, communication, concatenation, bridge, involvement, relevance, relevancy, relatedness
noun
a connecting shape
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: connection, link
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: shape, form
Narrower terms: node, articulation, join, joint, juncture, junction
History
From Middle English connexioun, from Latin connexiō (“a conclusion, binding together”), from connectō.
