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    Conjunction

    Definitions

    1 | noun | the temporal property of two things happening at the same time 2 | noun | the state of being joined together 3 | noun | an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences 4 | noun | the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction 5 | noun | (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac 6 | noun | something that joins or connects (6 meanings)

    Pronunciation

    kuhnj'uhngkshuhn (IPA: kəndʒˈʌŋkʃən)

    Hyphenation

    con-junc-tion (11 letters | 3 syllables)

    First known use in English

    1375 (Late Middle ages) (651 years ago)

    Word origins

    Old French | Latin

    Word frequency history

    Inflected form

    conjunctions

    Synonyms

    coincidence | concurrence | co-occurrence | colligation | conjugation | junction | conjunctive | connective | continuative | alignment (total: 10)

    Narrower terms

    concomitance | contemporaneity | contemporaneousness | overlap | unison | anastomosis | inosculation | synapse | coordinating conjunction | subordinate conjunction | subordinating conjunction | adversative conjunction | copulative conjunction | disjunctive conjunction | inferior conjunction | ... (total: 24)

    Broader terms

    simultaneity | simultaneousness | unification | union | closed-class word | function word | grammatical relation | encounter | meeting | connecter | connection | connective | connector | connexion (total: 14)

    Rhymes

    compunction | dysfunction | function | injunction | junction | malfunction (total: 6) (based on typical American pronunciation)

    Anagrams

    (none among common words)

    Translations

    Spanish: | conjunción (linguistics) French: | conjonction (linguistics) Portuguese: | conjunção (linguistics) German: | Bindewort (linguistics) Japanese: | 合 (common noun) | 会合 (common noun) | 合接 (common noun) | 接続 (common noun) | 連言 (common noun) | 接続詞 (common noun) | 論理積 (common noun) | 論理積結合 (common noun)

    Other notable uses

    conjunction.com | conjunction.org | conjunction.info | conjunction.biz

    Crossword puzzle clues

    (none)

    Scrabble score

    22 (International English) | 22 (North American English)