connection
∞
1.9
- noun
- /kəˈnɛkʃən/
:
conexión
- Her strong connection with her community helped her feel at home in a new city.
- make connections
- a meaningful connection
- a strong connection
Is it impossible to think that these connections may still exist?
- Is it impossible to think that these connections may still exist?
- Do plants have that same level of connection to the humans?
- And in fact, love and connection is what heals trauma.
- But that deeper true connection was not there.
- You may have seen some connections to the situation today.
- Those two are going to have this ongoing connection through that.
- It wants to restore connection to others, right?
- The actors have to have some kind of connection, some kind of charisma.
- The whole romance was just steamy, hot, amazing connection, and it fell apart.
- Keep that deeper connection and connectedness with them.
- OK, OK, to maintain whatever connection was available to us.
Examples
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Is it impossible to think that these connections may still exist?
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Thus, one intent of this study was to show the connection between PE and youth sport.
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So it's sort of a point of connection then.
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But then we get into connection and love and hope.
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We have some sort of connection to each other.
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Everybody knows that the connections here were many.
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The words that are coming to mind are joy, connection, health, community.
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And the human to human connection, like we're all humans here.
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I tracked you down to give you my phone number, 'cause I felt we had a connection.
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Explore musical play as a means of making meaningful connections in the elementary general music classroom.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
745
2.8
How people, groups, or countries are connected and act toward each other
684
1.4
A connection between people, things, or places
325
2.4
A connection that people have with family or friends
95
3.9
A connection with a group, organization or person
93
4.6
A connection between two things where one changes when the other changes
84
7.9
A point where things are connected, like roads or ideas
26
3.9
A connection between things, for example air pollution and disease
24
4.2
A close match that shows two things are similar
8
4.8
How people and things are joined and relate to each other
7
4.4
A group of things linked so they work together and change each other
6
6.8
The way things are linked and affect each other
2
5.5
How closely people or things connect to each other
2
5.9
A connection where two or more things affect each other
1
5.8
A way two or more things connect and affect each other
1
7.1
A close connection between things that makes them affect each other
1
6.1
A connection between things or systems that makes them affect each other
A link between things, people, or events
Antonyms
Compounds
Two large bridges that cross the Mississippi River at New Orleans and carry cars
- Specialized
A fitting on a building where firefighters attach hoses to pump water into the fire sprinkler or standpipe
How Connected
322
2.9
∞
1.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Connection comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and nect 'to tie'. So a connection is like a 'tie' between things or people, which is why we use it for a link between ideas, events, or facts.