connection

(noun)

noun

1. a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)

- there was a connection between eating that pickle and having that nightmare

Similar word(s): connectedness, connexion

Definition categories: link, relation

2. the state of being connected

- the connection between church and state is inescapable

Similar word(s): connectedness, link

Definition categories: state, unification, union

3. an instrumentality that connects

- he soldered the connection

- he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers

Similar word(s): connecter, connective, connector, connexion

Definition categories: man–made, instrumentality, instrumentation

4. (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship)

- he has powerful connections

Definition categories: person, acquaintance, friend

5. the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination

Similar word(s): association, connexion

Definition categories: thought, memory, remembering

6. a connecting shape

Similar word(s): connexion, link

Definition categories: shape, form

7. a supplier (especially of narcotics)

Definition categories: person, provider, supplier

8. shifting from one form of transportation to another

- the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta

Similar word(s): connexion

Definition categories: act, conveyance, transfer, transport, transportation

9. the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)

- there was a connection via the internet

Similar word(s): connexion, joining

Definition categories: act

Sentences with connection as a noun:

- the connection between overeating and obesity

- My headache has no connection with me going out last night.

- As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.

- computers linked by a network connection

- I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection.

- The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.