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Conjunction   /kəndʒˈəŋkʃən/   Listen
Conjunction

noun
1.
The temporal property of two things happening at the same time.  Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence.
2.
The state of being joined together.  Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, junction.
3.
An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences.  Synonyms: conjunctive, connective, continuative.
4.
The grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction.
5.
(astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac.  Synonym: alignment.
6.
Something that joins or connects.  Synonym: junction.



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adversative conjunction
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inferior conjunction
subordinate conjunction
subordinating conjunction
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"Conjunction" Quotes from Famous Books



... is possible that an American fleet will be dispatched to act in conjunction with the British grand fleet ...
— The Boy Allies with Uncle Sams Cruisers • Ensign Robert L. Drake
... appears to have suffered dispersion after the events of which there are two separate accounts combined in Gen. xxxiv. In conjunction with Simeon, he appears to have revenged the violation of his sister Dinah by a massacre of the Shechemites, and the dispersion alluded to in Jacob's blessing (Gen. xlix. 5-7) is mentioned as consequent on this ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12) • G. Maspero
... and subscriptions, that enterprising conspirator directed his two sons, richard and Peter de Mountfort, in conjunction with Robert de Ferrers, earl of Derby, to attack the city of Worcester; while Henry and Simon de Mountfort, two others of his sons, assisted by the prince of Wales, were ordered to lay waste the estate of Roger de Mortimer. ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. - From Henry III. to Richard III. • David Hume
... occurred, that measures be taken without delay in the interior of Croatia, and a stern examination be carried out in association with the Zagreb military command as also with the Army group command of Petrovaradin, acting in conjunction with the Government Commissary Hideghethy. Guilty persons are to be handed over to the military court ...
— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 • Henry Baerlein
... in a thoughtful tone. "Not at all, for the moment.—Later on, we shall see.—I have an idea that a number of things are included in the puzzling conjunction of those two words, AIGUILLE CREUSE. What is troubling me at present is rather the material on which the document is written, the paper employed.—Do they still manufacture this sort of rather coarse-grained parchment? And then this ivory color.—And those folds—the wear of those folds—and, ...
— The Hollow Needle • Maurice Leblanc


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