communication

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English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/
• Hyphenation: com‧mu‧ni‧ca‧tion
• (North India) IPA^(key): /kəˌmjuːniˈkeːʃən/
• (South India) IPA^(key): /kəˈmjuːniˌkeːʃən/

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

communication (countable and uncountable, plural communications)

1. The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.

   communication of smallpox

   communication of a secret

2. (uncountable) 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. (anatomy) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
   • 1855, William Stokes, The Diseases of the Heart and the Aorta Page 617

     ...and here a free communication had been established between the aorta and the vena cava.

8. (obsolete) Association; company.
9. Participation in Holy Communion.
10. (rhetoric) A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says "we" instead of "I" or "you".

Antonyms

• anticommunication

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: コミュニケーション (komyunikēshon)

Translations

References

• “communication”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• communication in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "communication" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 72.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “communication”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Further reading

• communication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Alternative forms

• communicaison

Etymology

Inherited from Old French communicacion, borrowed from Latin commūnicātiōnem (“sharing, communication”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.my.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/

Noun

communication f (plural communications)

1. communication

Derived terms

• chargé de communication
• voie de communication

Related terms

• communiquer

Further reading

• “communication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

communication

1. alternative form of comunicacioun