conjunction
Meanings
Plural: conjunctions
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
- The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
- 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.)
- Cooccurrence; coincidence.
- The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
- An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
- The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ( and ) operator.
- A place where multiple things meet.
- Sexual intercourse.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French conjonction, from Latin coniūnctiō (“joining”), from coniungere (“to join”).
Synonyms
action, alignment, aphrodisia, ass, bang, barney-mugging, beef injection, bonking, boom-boom, carnal knowledge, chesterfield rugby, co-occurrence, coincidence, coition, coitus, colligation, commerce, commixtion, concurrence, congress, conjugation, conjunction, conjunctive, connection, connective, consummation, continuative, conversation, copulation, coupling, cuntfuck, fooling about, fooling around, frig, fucking, fucky-fucky, funny business, hanky-panky, horizontal dancing, horizontal hula, horizontal jogging, horizontal mambo, horizontal refreshments, hot beef injection, how's your father, hump, humpa humpa, intercourse, intimacy, intimate relations, intromission, jig-jig, jiggery-pokery, jiggy-jiggy, joining, junction, lay, legover, love, lovemaking, lustmaking, making whoopee, marital embrace, mating, meat injection, monkey business, mounting, Netflix and chill, nookie, old hat, pareunia, penetration, physical love, pipe, playing around, plough, plow, poon, poontang, punani, pussy, relations, ride, roll in the hay, root, rumpo, rumpy-pumpy, screw, screwing, seeing-to, sex, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, sexual union, sexy time, sexy times, shag, skin, snu snu, swiving, tang, the beast with two backs, the birds and the bees, trim, Ugandan affairs, Ugandan discussions, union
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 22
conjunction is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordconjunction is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
conjunction is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary