Connexion Meaning
/kəˈnɛkʃən/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounUncommon spelling of connection.
nounDated spelling of connection.
Sentence Examples
The connexion is miserable today!
The old telephone system had a very poor line connexion.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Her ____ to the royal family gave her access to exclusive social circles.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old British text used the archaic spelling ____ instead of the modern American form.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English connexioun, from Latin connexiō (“a conclusion, binding together”), from connectō.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"There are undoubtedly facts, which, may come to their knowledge by means of their connexion with the ſecretary of ſtate, reſpecting which they cannot anſwer."
— 1803 February 26, John Marshall, quotee, “Marbury v. Madiſon”, in U.S. Reports, volume 5, Washington, D.C.: William Cranch, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2024, pages 141–142:
"It is now time for the opposition to the Annexation of Texas to cease, all further agitation of the waters of bitterness and strife, at least in connexion with this question,–even though it may perhaps be required of us as a necessary condition of the freedom of our institutions, that we must live on for ever in a state of unpausing struggle and excitement upon some subject of party division or other."
— 1845 July and August, John O’Sullivan, “Annexation”, in United States Magazine and Democratic Review, volume 17, number 1, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2024, page 1:
"I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons; because her rank and connexions suited him; […]"
— 1848, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography:
"And about this harpooneer, whom I have not yet seen, you persist in telling me the most mystifying and exasperating stories, tending to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling towards the man whom you design for my bedfellow–a sort of connexion, landlord, which is an intimate and confidential one in the highest degree."
— 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
"All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place."
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Her ____ to the royal family gave her access to exclusive social circles.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old British text used the archaic spelling ____ instead of the modern American form.