connection
noun
[ kəˈnɛkʃ(ə)n ]
• a relationship in which a person or thing is linked or associated with something else.
• "the connections between social attitudes and productivity"
Similar:
link,
relationship,
relation,
relatedness,
interrelation,
interrelatedness,
interconnection,
interdependence,
association,
attachment,
bond,
tie,
tie-in,
correspondence,
parallel,
analogy,
bearing,
relevance,
• a supplier of narcotics.
• an association of Methodist Churches.
• "the primitive Methodists broke with the Wesleyan connection in 1810"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin connexio(n- ), from connectere (see connect). The spelling -ct (18th century) is from connect, on the pattern of pairs such as collect, collection .
