communication

Meaning

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

Concepts

communication

message

announcement

contact

transmission

information

notice

intercourse

report

advice

statement

traffic

transportation

communicating

transfer

connection

notification

correspondence

news

delivery

account

declaration

communion

intelligence

liaison

info

call

contacting

getting in touch

understanding

propagation

conveyance

convey

handing over

passing

telling

making known

relation

ties

tidings

dispatch

link

relations

communicate

communications

content

signal

circulation

diffusion

dissemination

transmitting

conversation

talk

impart

inform

passage

relater

reporter

line of communication

informing

publication

speaking

narration

relationship

dealing

favour

com

linkage

bond

tie

counsel

errand

word

commune

rapport

despatch

missive

contagion

transmittal

dope

reference

tip off

transport

collusion

concert

connivance

entente

affiliation

consecution

handshaking

communiqué

conveying

interaction

coordination

junction

expression

utterance

connections

broadcast

transmit

diffuse

divergence

popular

scattered

food

shelter

disseminate

spread

social intercourse

note

piece of information

exercise

move

step

organs

theme

topic

SMS

data

text

Hyphenated as

com‧mu‧ni‧ca‧tion

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/

Etymology

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