connexion
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- connexional adjective
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
So there's a Passover connexion, and a bit of irony: Jewish liberation, security and cult, all thanks to the Iranians!
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2016
"But on the whole it was perfect. We hit the ball right out of the park. It's lost. And it's gonna stay lost. There isn't a single connexion."
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2015
The ideally handsome way is for him to multiply in any given connexion all the possible sources of entertainment—or, more grossly expressing it again, to intensify his whole chance of pleasure.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 19, 2014
A fictitious character is introduced for the sake of giving some connexion to the piece; which, however, makes no pretension to regularity.
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2011
“I must not hope to be ever situated as you are, in the midst of every dearest connexion, and therefore I cannot expect that simply growing older should make me indifferent about letters.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
