Conjunction Meaning
/kənˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃn̩/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of joining, or condition of being joined.
nounA word used to join other words, phrases, or clauses together into sentences. (The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related semantically.)
Sentence Examples
A more plausible proposal is the one Leech presented in conjunction with Emmet's theory.
Relative pronouns perform as 'conjunction + pronoun'.
Bribes are something that arises in conjunction with power organizations.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The word 'and' is a common ____ used to connect two sentences.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new drug was designed to be used in ____ with standard chemotherapy treatments.
Word Origin & History
From Old French conjonction, from Latin coniūnctiō (“joining”), from coniungere (“to join”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[…] Dr. Minchin in return was quite sure that man was not a mere machine or a fortuitous conjunction of atoms; […]"
— 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVIII, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I:
"About them all there is that sort of stiff quaint unreality, that conjunction of the grotesque, and even of a certain bourgeois snugness, with passionate contortion and horror, that is so characteristic of Gothic art."
— 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books:
"A comma is placed between short members of compound sentences, connected by and, but, for, nor, or, because, whereas, that expressing purpose (so that, in order that), and other conjunctions."
— 1881, Alfred Ayres [pseudonym; Thomas Embly Osmun], The Verbalist:
"[…] the coexistence of one such phenomenon with another; or the succession of one such phenomenon to another: their conjunction, in short, so that where the one is found, we may calculate on finding both."
— 1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, volume 1:
"The spectacular conjunction of Venus and Mars gave rise to a myriad of mythical interpretations."
— 2011, Starf*cker […] , Ev Cochrane, →ISBN, page 140:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The word 'and' is a common ____ used to connect two sentences.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The new drug was designed to be used in ____ with standard chemotherapy treatments.