conjunction
noun
Simple meaning
A word used to join other words, phrases, or clauses together into sentences.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
kənˈdʒʌŋkʃən
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Definition
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noun
grammar
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.)
grammar
An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
The state of being joined together
The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
A place where multiple things meet.
Cooccurrence; coincidence.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B1 · Intermediate
- Frequency
- Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
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This meaning: 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.)
Used this way, conjunction is a specialist word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. This is a grammar or language-study use: it describes how language works, so it appears in teaching and reference writing.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Specialist/technical
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Specialized
- Connotation
- Clinical and technical
- Usage feel
- Technical and specialized
Where it naturally appears
- Academic writing
- Education/classroom
- Technical/specialist writing
Usage note
In general conversation this sense usually needs explaining — outside its field, people reach for a plainer word.
Nearby words
- connective , a specialist term, precise but narrower
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Close in meaning, but not always interchangeable.
The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
The conjunction of two celestial objects.
A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.
Word Family
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Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
The coordination by conjunction of linguistic units of the same status.
The conjunctive relation of units that expresses the addition of their meanings.
The conjunctive relation of units that expresses the disjunction of their meanings.
The alignment of the Earth and a planet on the same side of the sun.
A conjunction (like `since' or `that' or `who') that introduces a dependent clause.
The subordination that occurs when a conjunction makes one linguistic unit a constituent of another.
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