conjunction
pronunciation
How to pronounce conjunction in British English:
UK [kənˈdʒʌŋkʃn]
How to pronounce conjunction in American English:
US [kənˈdʒʌŋkʃn]
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- Noun:
- the temporal property of two things happening at the same time
- the state of being joined together
- an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
- the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction
- (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
- something that joins or connects
Word Origin
- conjunction (n.)
- late 14c., originally of planets, from Old French conjonction "union, joining, sexual intercourse" (12c.), from Latin coniunctionem (nominative coniunctio), from past participle stem of coniugare "join together" (see conjugal). Compare Italian congiunzione, Spanish conjunción. Grammatical sense (late 14c.) was in Latin, a loan-translation of Greek syndesmos. The word also had the meaning "sexual union" 17c.-18c.
Example
- 1. Others will allow it to operate only in close conjunction with powerful domestic interests .
- 2. However it can have more impact if software is used in conjunction with robotics .
- 3. You can also use a conjunction to connect the clauses .
- 4. Such was the case with apple 's mobileme launch , in conjunction with the new mac operating system leopard .
- 5. Rss can be used in conjunction with many of the online collaboration tools to notify other contributors of changes .