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English

Alternative forms

connexion (dated)
connex. (abbreviation)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin nectō

Latin cōnectō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin cōnexiōder.

Latin connexionemder.

Middle English connexiounder.

English connection

From Middle English conneccioun, connexioun, conneccyon, conneccion, from Latin connexionem (nominative connexio (“a conclusion, binding together”)), from connectō, an alternative spelling of cōnectō (“to bind together”), from compound of co- (“together”) and nectō (“to bind”).

In American English mid-18c., spelling shifted from connexion to connection (equivalent to connect +‎ -ion), thus making connexion British dated and connection in international use.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kəˈnɛkʃən/, [kʰəˈnɛkʃən] ~ [kʰəˈnɛkʃn̩]
- Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Hyphenation: con‧nec‧tion

Noun

connection (countable and uncountable, plural connections)

(uncountable) The act of connecting.
- 2005 October 2, Mieke Schüller, Howards End by E. M. Forster: "Only Connect!", GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 2:
  Forster employs personal relations to emphasize the importance of connection and mutual understanding
1. Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
2. (euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
  - 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)‎^[1]:
    The exact nature of the relations between the boy-wife and his protector are doubtful; they certainly have connection, but the natives repudiate with horror and disgust the idea of sodomy.
- 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 29:
  At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse. Male worshippers similarly had connexion with she-goats.
The point at which two or more things are connected.
the leak formed at the connection of the pipe and the boiler
1. (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
  The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train.
  - 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 26:
    It is kept super-clean by helpful staff who still find the time to help customers with tight connections.
A physical link between two things or places.
the isthmus of Panama is the connection between North and South America
1. An established communications or transportation link.
  computers linked by a network connection
  
  I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection.
A relationship or association.
1. A causal relationship between two phenomena; cause and effect.
  the connection between overeating and obesity
  
  My headache has no connection with me going out last night.
2. A relationship between people or groups of people.
  Synonym: (formal) communion
  
  He parlayed his family connections into a prestigious job.
  - 2020 June 30, Tikiri Herath, The Girl Who Knew Their Names: A vigilante crime suspense novel, REBEL DIVA PRESS, →ISBN:
    These two seemed to have a closer relationship than I knew. What's their connection?
3. A feeling of mutual understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
  As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us.
4. A contextual relationship; the commonality between two or more things.
  in this connection
  - 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman‎^[2], archived from the original on 6 November 2018:
    A spokesman for Lothian and Borders Police said: "We can confirm that a 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of Jodi Jones. A 45-year-old has also been arrested in connection with allegations of attempting to pervert the course of justice. A report on this has been sent to the procurator fiscal."
  - 2025 February 17, Emily Bootle, “I hate Only Connect – but I can’t stop watching it”, in The i Paper‎^[3], archived from the original on 21 February 2025:
    The first two rounds, in which players try to identify the connection between a group of four clues and then to name the next clue in a cryptic sequence, are often so obscure, the connections so convoluted or tangential, that nobody lands on an answer.
A person or persons related to oneself, through either family or business.
I have some connections in Lancashire.
- 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
  I hadn't much chance of buying a practice or dropping into a partnership worth having and I jibbed at setting up in some God-forsaken backwater and slipping into middle age 'building up a connection.'
1. (usually in the plural) An acquaintance who is useful in a particular scenario, especially in a corrupt or criminal way.
  - 1934, A. I. Voinova, Semi-precious Stones:
    I have connections in the local committee. I shall bring them to bear, as long as the Council does not find fault!
  - 2005, Roger R. Reese, Red Commanders: A Social History of the Soviet Army Officer Corps, 1918-1991, page 223:
    General Zhigailo also used his connections to have an officer at the academy expelled from the party because he had criticized the general's behavior.
  - 2015 September 19, Linda J. Alexander, A Maverick Life: The Jack Kelly Story, BearManor Media:
    "I don't think Merv had ever been in the Mob," she added, but "he had connections." She recalled one of his connections.
3. (slang) A drug dealer.
  - 1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC:
    Now the final study was the drug habit. He was now in New Orleans, slipping along the streets with shady characters and haunting connection bars.
(mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
(religion) Alternative spelling of connexion; a Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.

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Translations

act of connecting

Albanian: lidhje (sq) f
Arabic: عَلَاقَة f (ʕalāqa), رَبْط m (rabṭ)
Armenian: միացում (hy) (miacʻum)
Belarusian: злучэ́нне n (zlučénnje), злучэ́ньне n (zlučénʹnje)
Bulgarian: свъ́рзване (bg) n (svắrzvane)
Catalan: connexió (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 連接 / 连接 (lin⁴ zip³)

Mandarin: 連接 / 连接 (zh) (liánjiē)
Czech: spojení (cs) n
Danish: forbinding (da)
Dutch: verbinding (nl) f, connectie (nl) f
Esperanto: kunligo, interligiteco
Estonian: ühendamine, seostamine
Finnish: yhdistäminen (fi)
French: connexion (fr) f
Galician: conexión (gl) f
Georgian: კავშირი (ka) (ḳavširi), დაკავშირება (daḳavšireba)
German: Verbindung (de) f, Verknüpfung (de) f
Greek: σύνδεση (el) f (sýndesi)
Hebrew: קישור / קִשּׁוּר (he) m (kishúr), חִיבּוּר / חִבּוּר (he) m (khibúr)
Hungarian: csatlakozás (hu), összekapcsolás (hu), kapcsolás (hu), összekapcsolódás (hu), kapcsolódás (hu)
Indonesian: koneksi (id), hubungan (id)
Italian: connessione (it) f
Japanese: 連結 (ja) (れんけつ, renketsu), 結合 (ja) (けつごう, ketsugō)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پەیوەندی (ckb) (peywendî)
Latin: nexus (la) m
Lithuanian: ryšys (lt) m, sujungimas m
Malay: penyambungan
Māori: tūhononga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forbindelse (no) m
Old English: ġespann n, tīeġung f
Persian:
Iranian Persian: اِتِّصال (ettesâl), رابِطِه (fa) (râbete), عَلاقِه (fa) (alâġe)
Polish: połączenie (pl) n
Portuguese: conexão (pt) f, ligação (pt) f
Romanian: conectare (ro) f, legare (ro) f, unire (ro) f, îmbinare (ro) f, conexare (ro) f (rare)
Russian: соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije)
Scottish Gaelic: ceangal m
Spanish: vinculación (es) f, conexión (es) f, trabazón (es) f, ligazón (es) f, ilación (es) f
Swahili: uunganishaji
Swedish: förbindelse (sv)
Tajik: иттисол (ittisol), робита (robita), алоқа (tg) (aloqa)
Telugu: సంధానం (sandhānaṁ)
Thai: การเชื่อมโยง, การเชื่อมต่อ
Turkish: bağlantı (tr), bağlanma (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: ربط (rabt, rabıt)
Ukrainian: з'є́днання (uk) n (zʺjédnannja), з'єдна́ння (uk) n (zʺjednánnja)
Urdu: رابِطَہ m (rābita), اِتِّصال (ur) m (ittisāl), عِلاقَہ m ('ilāqa)
Yiddish: שײַכות n (shaykhes)

point at which two or more things are joined

Albanian: lidhje (sq) f
Arabic: اِتِّصَال (ar) m (ittiṣāl)
Armenian: կապ (hy) (kap), կապակցություն (hy) (kapakcʻutʻyun)
Belarusian: сувя́зь f (suvjázʹ), злучэ́нне n (zlučénnje), злучэ́ньне n (zlučénʹnje)
Bulgarian: съедине́ние (bg) n (săedinénie)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 接線 / 接线 (zip³ sin³), 連接 / 连接 (lin⁴ zip³)

Mandarin: 接線 / 接线 (zh) (jiēxiàn), 連接 / 连接 (zh) (liánjiē)
Czech: spojení (cs) n
Danish: forbindelse (da) c
Dutch: verbinding (nl) f, connectie (nl) f
Esperanto: kunligo, interligiteco
Estonian: ühendus, seos (et)
Finnish: yhteys (fi)
French: liaison (fr) f, lien (fr) m, rapport (fr) m
Georgian: კავშირი (ka) (ḳavširi), ბმული (bmuli)
German: Verbindung (de), Verknüpfung (de) f
Greek: σύνδεση (el) f (sýndesi)
Hebrew: קֶשֶׁר (he) m (késher) (the result of connecting, a link between connected people or things)
Hindi: संबंध (hi) m (sambandh)
Hungarian: összefüggés (hu), kapcsolat (hu)
Ingrian: yhtehys, yhtehös
Irish: ceangal m
Latin: nexus (la) m
Latvian: sakars m
Lithuanian: jungtis (lt) m, sujungimas m
Macedonian: врска f (vrska)
Māori: hononga, tūhononga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sammenheng (no) m, forbindelse (no) m

Nynorsk: samanheng m
Old English: ġespann n, tīeġung f
Persian:
Iranian Persian: اِتِّصال (ettesâl)
Polish: połączenie (pl) n
Portuguese: conexão (pt) f, junção (pt) f, ligação (pt) f
Romanian: legătură (ro) f, conexiune (ro) f, joncțiune (ro) f
Russian: связь (ru) f (svjazʹ), соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije)
Sanskrit: बन्धु (sa) m (bandhu)
Scottish Gaelic: ceangal m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ве̏за f

Latin: vȅza (sh) f
Slovak: spojenie n
Slovene: zveza f
Spanish: conexión (es) f
Swedish: förbindelse (sv) c
Thai: สนธิ (th) (sǒn-tí), ข้อต่อ (kɔ̂ɔ-dtɔ̀ɔ)
Turkish: bağlantı (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: رابطه (rabıta)
Ukrainian: зв'язо́к (uk) m (zvʺjazók), сполу́чення (uk) n (spolúčennja)
Urdu: اِتِّصال (ur) m (ittisāl)

feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people — see also confidence,‎ complicity

Arabic: عَلَاقَة f (ʕalāqa), صِلَة f (ṣila)
Catalan: connexió (ca), confiança (ca), complicitat (ca)
Chinese:
Hokkien: 關係 / 关系 (zh-min-nan) (koan-hē), 值大代 (tī-tōa-tāi), 值代 (tī-tāi)

Mandarin: 關係 / 关系 (zh) (guānxi)
Finnish: yhteys (fi)
French: complicité (fr) f
Greek: σύνδεση (el) f (sýndesi)
Hebrew: קֶשֶׁר (he) m (késher), חִיבּוּר / חִבּוּר (he) m (khibur)
Hungarian: kapcsolódás (hu), közösség (hu)
Irish: ceangal m
Japanese: 関係 (ja) (かんけい, kankei), 縁故 (ja) (えんこ, enko)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پەیوەندی (ckb) (peywendî)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: رابِطِه (râbete)
Portuguese: ligação (pt) f
Romanian: legătură (ro) f, relație (ro) f
Russian: связь (ru) f (svjazʹ)
Sanskrit: बन्धु (sa) m (bandhu)
Scottish Gaelic: ceangal m
Spanish: conexión (es) f
Turkish: bağ (tr)
Welsh: cyfundeb m

established communications or transportation link — see also call

Arabic: صِلَة f (ṣila), صُلَة f (ṣula)
Azerbaijani: rabitə (az), bağlantı
Belarusian: су́вязь f (súvjazʹ)
Bulgarian: връ́зка (bg) f (vrắzka)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 通信 (tung¹ seon³)

Mandarin: 通信 (zh) (tōngxìn)
Czech: spojení (cs) n
Danish: forbindelse (da) c
Dutch: verbinding (nl) f
Esperanto: konekto, komunikiĝo
Finnish: yhteys (fi)
French: connexion (fr) f
German: Verbindung (de)
Greek: σύνδεση (el) f (sýndesi), ζεύξη (el) f (zéfxi), σύζευξη (el) f (sýzefxi)
Hindi: संबंध (hi) m (sambandh)
Hungarian: kapcsolat (hu)
Irish: ceangal m
Japanese: 連絡 (ja) (れんらく, renraku), 通信 (ja) (つうしん, tsūshin), コネクション (ja) (konekushon)
Korean: 연결(連結) (ko) (yeon'gyeol), 련결(連結) (ko) (ryeon'gyeol) (North Korea), 커넥션 (keoneksyeon)
Macedonian: врска f (vrska)
Māori: tūhononga
Marshallese: bar
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tilkobling m or f
Persian:
Iranian Persian: رابِطِه (râbete)
Polish: połączenie (pl) n
Portuguese: conexão (pt) f, correspondência (pt) f, ligação (pt) m
Romanian: legătură (ro) f
Russian: (телефо́нная OR тра́нспортная) связь (ru) f (svjazʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: ceangal m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ве̏за f

Latin: vȅza (sh) f
Slovak: spojenie n
Slovene: zveza f, povezava f
Spanish: conexión (es) f, acometida (es) f
Swedish: förbindelse (sv) c
Tagalog: kabit
Turkish: bağlantı (tr)
Ukrainian: зв'язо́к (uk) m (zvʺjazók)
Urdu: رابِطَہ کاری m (rābita kārī)

transport: transfer — see also correspondence

Belarusian: пераса́дка f (pjerasádka)
Bulgarian: връ́зка (bg) f (vrắzka)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 換乘 / 换乘 (wun⁶ sing⁴)

Mandarin: 換乘 / 换乘 (zh) (huànchéng)
Dutch: overstap (nl) m
Finnish: jatkoyhteys (fi), yhteys (fi)
French: correspondance (fr) f
German: Anschluss (de)
Greek: ανταπόκριση (el) f (antapókrisi)
Hungarian: csatlakozás (hu)
Italian: coincidenza (it) f
Japanese: 乗り換え (ja) (のりかえ, norikae)
Korean: 환승(換乘) (ko) (hwanseung)
Polish: przesiadka (pl) f
Portuguese: correspondência (pt) f
Romanian: corespondență (ro) f
Russian: переса́дка (ru) f (peresádka)
Spanish: conexión (es) f
Turkish: aktarma (tr)
Ukrainian: пере́сідка f (perésidka), переса́дка f (peresádka)

kinship relationship

Finnish: yhteys (fi)
Hungarian: rokoni kapcsolat, rokonság (hu), rokon (hu)
Irish: cleamhnas m (by marriage)
Māori: moumouranga (by marriage)
Romanian: înrudire (ro) f
Scottish Gaelic: ceangal m
Swedish: förbindelse (sv) c, anknytning (sv) c

individual related to oneself, through either family or business

Hungarian: összeköttetés (hu), kapcsolat (hu), üzletfél (hu), üzletkör (hu)
Turkish: tanıdık (tr)

an acquaintance who is useful in a particular scenario, especially in a corrupt or criminal way — see also clout

Chinese:
Mandarin: 關係 / 关系 (zh) (guānxi), 人脈 / 人脉 (zh) (rénmài)
Czech: konexe f
Finnish: verkosto (fi), suhteet (fi) pl
French: piston (fr) m
German: Vitamin B (de) n (informal)
Japanese: コネ (ja) (kone)
Malay: kabel (ms)
Portuguese: cartucho (pt) m
Romanian: relații (ro) f pl, legături (ro) f pl, pile (ro) f pl (informal)
Slovak: konexia (sk) f
Spanish: enchufe (es) m

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Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} hubungan (id), ^{(please verify)} sambungan (id), ^{(please verify)} kaitan (id)