communication
English
/kəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/
noun
Definitions
- The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
- (uncountable) The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
- A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
- The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
- An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
- A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
- (anatomy) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
- (obsolete) Association; company.
- Participation in Holy Communion.
- (rhetoric) A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says "we" instead of "I" or "you".
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French communicacion derived from Latin commūnicātiōnem.
Origin
Latin
commūnicātiōnem
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticommunication English
- biocommunication English
- chemocommunication English
- communicational English
- communicationally English
- communicology English
- cybercommunication English
- e-communication English
- electrocommunication English
- exocommunication English
- intercommunication English
- malcommunication English
- metacommunication English
- miscommunication English
- noncommunication English
- noncommunicational English
- overcommunication English
- radiocommunication English
- radiotelecommunication English
- recommunication English
- semicommunication English
- telecommunication English
- telecommunicational English
- transcommunication English
- uncommunication English
- communicatio Latin
- commūnicātiōnem Latin
- commūnicātiōnem, commūnicātiō Latin
- commūnicō Latin
- kommunikáció Hungarian
- kommunikációk Hungarian
- kommunikációs Hungarian
- telekommunikáció Hungarian
- communicatie Dutch, Flemish
- communication French
- télécommunication French
- коммуникация Russian
- kommunikasjon Norwegian Bokmål
- コミュニケーション Japanese
- マスコミュニケーション Japanese
- kommunikasjon Norwegian Nynorsk
- communicacion Old French
- communicacie Middle Dutch
- comunicacion Occitan
- 커뮤니케이션 Korean
- komunikesen Tok Pisin
- communicology
- communicational
- recommunication
- uncommunication
- e-communication
- miscommunication
- noncommunication
- exocommunication
- biocommunication
- malcommunication
- metacommunication
- anticommunication
- communicationally
- overcommunication
- telecommunication
- semicommunication
- transcommunication
- cybercommunication
- noncommunicational
- chemocommunication
- intercommunication
- radiocommunication
- telecommunicational
- electrocommunication
- radiotelecommunication