Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃən/
- Hyphenation: con‧junc‧tion
- Rhymes: -ʌŋkʃən
Noun
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conjunction (countable and uncountable, plural conjunctions)
- 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; […]
1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books:About them all there is that sort of stiff quaint unreality, that conjunction of the grotesque, and even of a certain bourgeois snugness, with passionate contortion and horror, that is so characteristic of Gothic art.
- (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.
1881, Alfred Ayres [pseudonym; Thomas Embly Osmun], The Verbalist:A comma is placed between short members of compound sentences, connected by and, but, for, nor, or, because, whereas, that expressing purpose (so that, in order that), and other conjunctions.
- Cooccurrence; coincidence.
1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, volume 1:[…] the coexistence of one such phenomenon with another; or the succession of one such phenomenon to another: their conjunction, in short, so that where the one is found, we may calculate on finding both.
- (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
- Antonym: opposition
- Hyponyms: grand conjunction, great conjunction, inferior conjunction, superior conjunction, topocentric conjunction
2011, Starf*cker […] , Ev Cochrane, →ISBN, page 140:The spectacular conjunction of Venus and Mars gave rise to a myriad of mythical interpretations.
- (astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
- (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ (
) operator.
- Meronyms: conjunct, logical connective
- Coordinate term: disjunction
- A place where multiple things meet
2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 47:Today there is a mountain called Ararat near the conjunction of the Turkish, Armenian, and Iranian borders.
- (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulation
Translations
act of joining or being joined
- Bulgarian: съедине́ние (bg) n (sǎedinénie), свъ́рзване (bg) n (svǎ́rzvane)
- Catalan: conjunció (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 結合／结合 (git3 hap6), 連接／连接 (lin4 zip3)
- Mandarin: 結合／结合 (zh) (jiéhé), 連接／连接 (zh) (liánjiē)
- Finnish: liittäminen (fi), yhdistäminen (fi)
- Galician: conxunción (gl) f
- German: Zusammenhang (de) m
- Greek: σύνδεση (el) f (sýndesi), σύζευξη (el) f (sýzefxi)
- Hungarian: egyesülés (hu), egyesítés (hu), összevonás (hu), összekapcsolás (hu), összekapcsolódás (hu), kapcsolódás (hu), kapcsolat (hu)
- Interlingua: conjunction (ia)
- Japanese: 結合 (ja) (せつごう, ketsugō), 接合 (ja) (せつごう, setsugō), 接続 (ja) (せつぞく, setsuzoku), 連接 (ja) (れんせつ, rensetsu)
- Korean: 결합(結合) (ko) (gyeolhap), 연접(連接) (yeonjeop)
- Macedonian: спој m (spoj), врска f (vrska)
- Malay: penggabungan
- Maltese: konġunzjoni (mt) f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sammensetning (no) m
- Polish: łączenie (pl) n, połączenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: conjunção (pt) f
- Romanian: unire (ro) f, legare (ro) f, conjuncție (ro) f
- Russian: сою́з (ru) m (sojúz), связь (ru) f (svjazʹ)
- Spanish: conjunción (es) f, unión (es) f
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grammar: word used to join words or phrases
- Albanian: lidhëz (sq) f
- Arabic: حَرْف عَطْف m (ḥarf ʕaṭf)
- Aragonese: conchunción f
- Armenian: շաղկապ (hy) (šaġkap)
- Asturian: conxunción (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: bağlayıcı (az)
- Bashkir: теркәүес (terkəwes)
- Belarusian: злу́чнік m (zlúčnik)
- Breton: stagell (br) f
- Bulgarian: съю́з (bg) m (sǎjúz)
- Burmese: သမ္ဗန္ဓ (my) (sambandha.)
- Catalan: conjunció (ca) f
- Chechen: хуттург (xutturg)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 連接詞／连接词 (lin4 zip3 ci4), 連詞／连词 (lin4 ci4)
- Mandarin: 連接詞／连接词 (zh) (liánjiēcí), 連詞／连词 (zh) (liáncí)
- Czech: spojka (cs) f
- Danish: bindeord (da) n, konjunktion (da) c
- Dutch: voegwoord (nl) n, conjunctie (nl) f
- Estonian: sidesõna
- Faroese: sambindingarorð n
- Finnish: konjunktio (fi), sidesana (fi)
- French: conjonction (fr) f
- Galician: conxunción (gl) f
- Georgian: კავშირი (ka) (ḳavširi)
- German: Konjunktion (de) f, Bindewort (de) n
- Greek: σύνδεσμος (el) m (sýndesmos)
- Ancient: σύνδεσμος m (súndesmos)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: מִלַּת קִשּׁוּר (he) f (milát kishúr)
- Hindi: समुच्चय (hi) m (samuccay)
- Hungarian: kötőszó (hu)
- Hunsrik: please add this translation if you can
- Icelandic: samtenging (is) f
- Ido: konjunciono (io)
- Indonesian: kata penghubung (id), konjungsi (id)
- Interlingua: conjunction (ia)
- Irish: cónasc (ga) m
- Italian: congiunzione (it) f
- Japanese: 接続詞 (ja) (せつぞくし, setsuzokushi)
- Kapampangan: panyuglung, panuglung, pangsuglung
- Kazakh: жалғаулық (jalğaulyq)
- Khmer: ឈ្នាប់ (km) (chnŏəp)
- Korean: 접속사(接續詞) (ko) (jeopsoksa)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: (please verify) gihanek (ku)
- Kyrgyz: байламта (ky) (baylamta)
- Lao: ສັນທານ (san thān)
- Latin: conjunctio (la) f
- Latvian: saiklis (lv) m, konjunkcija f
- Lithuanian: jungtukas m
- Luxembourgish: Konjunktioun f
- Macedonian: сврзник m (svrznik)
- Malay: kata penghubung, kata hubung (ms)
- Malayalam: ഘടകം (ml) (ghaṭakaṁ)
- Maltese: konġunzjoni (mt) f
- Maori: kupu honohono, tūhono
- Middle English: coniunccion
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: холбоос үг (mn) (xolboos üg)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: konjunksjon (no) m, bindeord n
- Occitan: conjonccion f
- Pashto: تړتوری m (taṛtóray)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: حَرْفِ رَبْط (fa) (harf-e rabt)
- Polish: spójnik (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: conjunção (pt) f
- Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: conjuncție (ro) f
- Russian: сою́з (ru) m (sojúz)
- Scottish Gaelic: naisgear m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ве̑знӣк m
- Roman: vȇznīk (sh) m
- Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: spojka (sk) f
- Slovene: veznik (sl) m
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: konjunkcija f, zwěznik m
- Upper Sorbian: wjazawka f, konjunkcija f
- Spanish: conjunción (es) f
- Swahili: kiunganishi
- Swedish: konjunktion (sv) c, bindeord (sv) n
- Tagalog: pangatnig (tl), pangatnig (tl)
- Tajik: пайвандак (tg) (payvandak)
- Tatar: теркәгеч (tt) (terkägeç)
- Telugu: సంయోజకము (saṁyōjakamu)
- Thai: สันธาน (th) (sǎn-taan)
- Turkish: bağlaç (tr), rabıt (tr) (dated)
- Turkmen: baglanyşyk (tk)
- Ukrainian: сполу́чник m (spolúčnyk)
- Urdu: حَرْفِ عَطْف m (harf-i 'atf), حَرْفِ رَبْط m (harf-i rabt)
- Uyghur: باغلىغۇچى (baghlighuchi)
- Uzbek: bogʻlovchi (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự liên kết, liên từ (vi) (連詞)
- Volapük: konyun (vo)
- Walloon: aloyrece (wa) f (subordination), adjondrece (wa) f (coordination)
- Welsh: cysylltair m, cysylltiad (cy) m
- Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: קאָניונקציע f (konyunktsye), פֿאַרבינדונג-וואָרט n (farbindung-vort)
- Yoruba: ọ̀rọ̀-àsopọ̀
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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- Hungarian: összejátszás (hu), összetalálkozás (hu)
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astronomy: alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth
logic: proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the and operator
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