English
conjunction
Etymology

From Old French conjonction, from Latin coniūnctiō, from coniungere ("to join").

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /kənˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃən/
Noun

conjunction

  1. The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
    Synonyms: connection, union
    • 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVIII, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC ↗, book I:
      […] Dr. Minchin in return was quite sure that man was not a mere machine or a fortuitous conjunction of atoms; […]
  2. (grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related.
  3. Cooccurrence; coincidence.
  4. (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
    Antonyms: opposition
    Hyponyms: grand conjunction, great conjunction, inferior conjunction, superior conjunction, topocentric conjunction
  5. (astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
  6. (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ (\and) operator.
    Meronyms: conjunct, logical connective
    Coordinate term: disjunction
  7. A place where multiple things meet
  8. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
    Synonyms: Thesaurus:copulation
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 29, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC ↗:
      Certaine Nations (and amongst others, the Mahometane) abhorre Conjunction with women great with childe.
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