connection
/kəˈnɛkʃ(ə)n/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.76 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Forster employs personal relations to emphasize the importance of connection and mutual understanding"
- "At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse. Male worshippers similarly had connexion with she-goats."
- "The exact nature of the relations between the boy-wife and his protector are doubtful; they certainly have connection, but the natives repudiate with horror and disgust the idea of sodomy."
- "the leak formed at the connection of the pipe and the boiler"
- "The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train."
- "It is kept super-clean by helpful staff who still find the time to help customers with tight connections."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin nectō Latin cōnectō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin cōnexiōder. Latin connexionemder. Middle English connexiounder. English connection From Middle English conneccioun, connexioun, conneccyon, conneccion, from Latin connexionem (nominative connexio (“a conclusion, binding together”)), from connectō, an alternative spelling of cōnectō (“to bind together”), from compound of co- (“together”) and nectō (“to bind”). In American English mid-18c., spelling shifted from connexion to connection (equivalent to connect + -ion), thus making connexion British dated and connection in international use.