Word: connection Part of Speech: noun 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. Pronunciation: /kəˈnɛkʃ(ə)n/ 1. The act of connecting. Labels: uncountable Example: Forster employs personal relations to emphasize the importance of connection and mutual understanding Example: 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. 2. The act of connecting. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The act of connecting. Labels: countable, euphemistic, uncountable Example: 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. 4. The point at which two or more things are connected. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the leak formed at the connection of the pipe and the boiler 5. The point at which two or more things are connected. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train. Example: It is kept super-clean by helpful staff who still find the time to help customers with tight connections. 6. A physical link between two things or places. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the isthmus of Panama is the connection between North and South America 7. A physical link between two things or places. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: computers linked by a network connection Example: I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection. 8. A relationship or association. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the connection between overeating and obesity Example: My headache has no connection with me going out last night. 9. A relationship or association. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: These two seemed to have a closer relationship than I knew. What's their connection? 10. A relationship or association. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us. 11. A relationship or association. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: in this connection Example: A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We can confirm that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of Jodi Jones. A 45-year-old has also been arrested in connection with allegations of attempting to pervert the course of justice. A report on this has been sent to the procurator fiscal." 12. A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I have some connections in Lancashire. Example: I hadn't much chance of buying a practice or dropping into a partnership worth having and I jibbed at setting up in some God-forsaken backwater and slipping into middle age 'building up a connection.' 13. A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business. Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable Example: I have connections in the local committee. I shall bring them to bear, as long as the Council does not find fault! Example: General Zhigailo also used his connections to have an officer at the academy expelled from the party because he had criticized the general's behavior. 14. A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: Now the final study was the drug habit. He was now in New Orleans, slipping along the streets with shady characters and haunting connection bars. 15. A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty. Labels: countable, uncountable 16. Alternative spelling of connexion; a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences. Labels: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable