Word Meanings - CONNECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue

Additional info about word: CONNECTION

1. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue and hapiness. Atterbury. 2. That which connects or joins together; bond; tie. Any sort of connection which is perceived or imagined between two or more things. I. Taylor. 3. A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; -- used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense. 4. The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection. Men elevated by powerful connection. Motley. At the head of a strong parliamentary connection. Macaulay. Whose names, forces, connections, and characters were perfectly known to him. Macaulay. In this connection, in connection with this subject. Note: Note: This word was formerly written, as by Milton, with x instead of t in the termination, connexion, and the same thing is true of the kindred words inflexion, reflexion, and the like. But the general usage at present is to spell them connection, inflection, reflection, etc. Syn. -- Union; coherence; continuity; junction; association; dependence; intercourse; commerce; communication; affinity; relationship.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONNECTION)

• Affinity
• Relationship
• relation
• kindred
• conformity
• connection
• alliance
• similarity
• analogy
• homogeneity
• harmony
• correlativeness
• sympathy
• interdependence
• interconnection
• intercommunity
• Alliance
• Compact
• treaty
• cooperation
• union
• partnership
• league
• combination
• coalition
• confederation
• friendship
• relationship
• Association
• Union
• conjunction
• contortment
• companionship
• familiarity
• community
• membership
• society
• company
• denomination
• fellowship
• fraternity
• Concatenation
• Linking
• stringing
• continuity
• Continuation
• Sequence
• continuance
• duration
• succession
• extension
• prolongation
• perpetuation
• concatenation

Related words: (words related to CONNECTION)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• HOMOGENEITY
  See HOMOGENEOUSNESS
• LINKS
  A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green. A second links has recently been opened at Prestwick, and another at Troon, on the same coast. P. P. Alexander.
• CONFEDERATION
  1. The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particulary of princes, nations, or states. The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves. Bacon. This was no less than a political
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• CONTINUITY
  the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity
• COALITIONIST
  One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• FELLOWSHIP
  1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
• FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
  companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• DENOMINATIONAL
  Pertaining to a denomination, especially to a sect or society. "Denominational differences." Buckle.
• DENOMINATION
  1. The act of naming or designating. 2. That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• CONFORMITY
  1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. By our conformity to God. Tillotson. The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God. Dr. H.More.
• STRING
  An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it. (more info) G. strang, Icel. strengr, Sw. sträng, Dan. stræng; probably from the adj., E. strong ; or perhaps originally meaning, twisted,
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• NAVEL-STRING
  The umbilical cord.
• RECONTINUANCE
  The act or state of recontinuing.
• BLINK-EYED
  Habitually winking. Marlowe.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• ENLINK
  To chain together; to connect, as by links. Shak.
• OBDURATION
  A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
• INCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity; nonconformity.
• DISCONTINUITY
  Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.