conjunction

Other forms of conjunction

plural

conjunctions·

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 conjunction

What does conjunction mean?

conjunction means "the temporal property of two things happening at the same time". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in conjunction?

conjunction has 3 syllables: con-junc-tion. The stress falls on "junc". In IPA it is /kənˈdʒʌŋkʃən/.

What is another word for conjunction?

Close synonyms include concurrence, coincidence, co-occurrence, junction, conjugation. 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 conjunction a common word?

conjunction 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 conjunction?

2 words rhyme with conjunction. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.