coordinating conjunction

1. 1.

   the coordination by conjunction of linguistic units of the same status

   Broaderconjunction
2. 2.

   a conjunction (like `and' or `or') that connects two identically constructed grammatical constituents

   Broaderconjunction

Questions about coordinating conjunction

What does coordinating conjunction mean?

coordinating conjunction means "the coordination by conjunction of linguistic units of the same status". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is coordinating conjunction a common word?

coordinating conjunction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.