English Explanatory Dictionary

communication

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
  2. The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
  3. A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
  4. The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
  5. An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
  6. A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
  7. A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
  8. Association; company.
  9. Participation in Holy Communion.
  10. A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says "we" instead of "I" or "you".

Pronunciation

/kəˌmjuː.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ /kəˌmju.nɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ En-us-communication.ogg /kəˌmjʉː.nɪˈkæɪ.ʃən/ /kəˌmjʉː.nəˈkæɪ.ʃən/ /kəmˈjunɪkeʃən/ /kəm(jʊ)nɪˈkeʃən/

Word forms

communication communications

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English comunicacioun, communicacion (“discussion, association”), from Old French communicacion, from Latin commūnicātiōnem, accusative singular of commūnicātiō (“imparting, communicating”), from commūnicō (“to share, to impart”). Morphologically communicate + -ion.

Antonyms

anticommunication

Related words

communicate communicator communion

Derived words

biocommunication chemocommunication commognition communication accommodation theory communicational communication board communication cord communication disorder communication engineering communication mix communications communications satellite communication studies communication theory communicology computer-mediated communication cross-cultural communication cybercommunication e-communication electrocommunication electronic communication excommunication ex-communication exocommunication facilitated communication intercommunication inter-process communication line of communication malcommunication masscom mass communication metacommunication meta-communication near field communication no-communication theorem nonverbal communication overcommunication PC communication power line communication power-line communication radiocommunication recommunication record communication semicommunication space communication spirit communication spread spectrum communication transcommunication two-way communication uncommunication undercommunication verbal communication

Translations

Finnish: kommunikaatio Finnish: yhteys French: communication German: Verbindung Italian: comunicazione Malay: komunikasi Portuguese: comunicação Portuguese: conexão Romanian: legătură Turkish: bağlantı
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