conjunction
The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
Other meanings
A word used to join other words, phrases or clauses together into sentences. (The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related semantically.)
cooccurrence; coincidence.
Related words
- conjunctional
- conjunctionless
- misconjunction
- in conjunction with
- conjunction fallacy
- coordinating conjunction
- subordinating conjunction
- contrasting conjunction
- comparing conjunction
Word history
From Latin "coniūnctiō" (joining).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “conjunction” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.