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.