communication
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Noun (3)communications
- the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information“they could not act without official communication from Moscow”Synonyms: communicatingType of act, deedKinds discussion, expression, expostulation, dramaturgy, examination, transmission, medium, mail, exhortation, contact +5 more
- something that is communicated by or to or between people or groupsType of abstraction, abstract entityKinds voice, language, message, signal, indication, expressive style, sign, written communication, publication, display +7 more
- a connection allowing access between persons or places“how many lines of communication can there be among four people?”“a secret passageway provided communication between the two rooms”Type of connection, connexionKinds Twitter
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Translations
Noun concept of exchanging information
- Spanish
- comunicación
- French
- communication
- German
- Kommunikation
- Italian
- comunicazione
- Portuguese
- comunicação
- Turkish
- iletişim
- Russian
- коммуника́ция kommunikácija
- Arabic
- اِتِّصَال ittiṣāl
- Japanese
- コミュニケーション komyunikēshon
- Dutch
- communicatie
22 more languages
- Polish
- komunikacja
- Swedish
- kommunikation
- Greek
- επικοινωνία epikoinonía
- Korean
- 통신 tongsin
- Indonesian
- komunikasi
- Vietnamese
- truyền thông
- Hungarian
- kommunikáció
- Portuguese (PT)
- comunicação
- Catalan
- comunicació
- Czech
- komunikace
- Danish
- kommunikation
- Esperanto
- komunikado
- Estonian
- side
- Finnish
- viestintä
- Georgian
- კომუნიკაცია ḳomuniḳacia
- Hebrew
- תקשורת tikshóret
- Icelandic
- samskipti
- Norwegian
- kommunikasjon
- Romanian
- comunicare
- Serbo-Croatian
- komunikacija
- Slovak
- komunikácia
- Swahili
- mawasiliano
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. communicatio.
1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.
2. Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence.
Argument... and friendly communication.— William Shakespeare
3. Association; company.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.— 1 Cor. xv. 33.
4. Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection.
The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe.— John Arbuthnot
5. That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.
6. Participation in the Lord's supper. Bp. John Pearson
7. 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. James Beattie
Synonyms: Correspondence; conference; intercourse.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54