communication

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
2. (uncountable) The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
3. (countable, uncountable) A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
4. (countable, uncountable) The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
5. (countable, uncountable) An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
6. (countable, uncountable) A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
7. (countable, uncountable) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
8. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Association; company.
9. (countable, uncountable) Participation in Holy Communion.
10. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable) A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says "we" instead of "I" or "you".

Synonyms

message

announcement

contact

transmission

information

notice

intercourse

report

advice

statement

communicating

transportation

connection

traffic

transfer

correspondence

news

📰

notification

delivery

intelligence

communion

declaration

liaison

account

conveyance

handing over

convey

communications

content

communicate

understanding

getting in touch

ties

contacting

telling

tidings

relation

dispatch

propagation

call

link

🔗

relations

info

making known

passing

coordination

conveying

broadcast

conversation

food

🍽️

Translations

communication

Kommunikation

comunicazione

comunicación

comunicação

Mitteilung

communicatie

επικοινωνία

mededeling

Verkehr

Verbindung

comunicació

renseignement

Nachricht

📰

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: communicacion

In summary

Inherited from Middle English comunicacioun, communicacion (“discussion, association”), from Old French communicacion, from Latin commūnicātiōnem, accusative singular of commūnicātiō (“imparting, communicating”), from commūnicō (“I share, I impart”). Morphologically communicate + -ion.

Sentences

Byrne later graduated from Arizona State University with Honors in Communication .