attachment

1. 1.

   a feeling of affection for a person or an institution

   Synonymsfond regard

   Broaderaffection
2. 2.

   a supplementary part or accessory

   Broaderaddition

   Narrowerhood
3. 3.

   a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding

   Broaderwrit

   law

4. 4.

   a connection that fastens things together

   Synonymsbond

   Broaderconnection

   Narrowerligament
5. 5.

   faithful support for a cause or political party or religion

   “attachment to a formal agenda”

   “adherence to a fat-free diet”

   “the adhesion of Seville was decisive”

   Synonymsadherenceadhesion

   Broadersupport

   Narrowerecclesiasticismkabbalismroyalismtraditionalism
6. 6.

   the act of attaching or affixing something

   Synonymsaffixation

   Broadercombination

   Narrowergraft
7. 7.

   the act of fastening things together

   Synonymsfastening

   Broaderjoining

   Narrowerbondingdowelinggroundinglinkagetyingweldingfixation

Other forms of attachment

plural

attachments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about attachment

What does attachment mean?

attachment means "a feeling of affection for a person or an institution". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in attachment?

attachment has 3 syllables: at-tach-ment. The stress falls on "tach". In IPA it is /əˈtætʃmənt/.

What is another word for attachment?

Close synonyms include fond regard, bond, adherence, adhesion, affixation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is attachment a common word?

attachment is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with attachment?

1 word rhymes with attachment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.