connexion

[ kuh-nek-shuhn ]

noun

, British.

1. connection.

Other Words From

• con·nexion·al adjective

Example Sentences

Mr. Elton’s situation was most suitable, quite the gentleman himself, and without low connexions; at the same time, not of any family that could fairly object to the doubtful birth of Harriet.

From Literature

An Aurora, Colo. police officer has been terminated from his position by the interim chief of police for “severe misconduct” in connexion to an August 2019 incident, a television report said Monday.

From Fox News

There is a connexion with Bilbo’s old adventures, and the Riders are looking, or perhaps one ought to say searching, for him or for me.

From Literature

I remember how even leftwing economists in the early 1970s challenged the pivotal manifesto prediction that capital would “nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere”.

From The Guardian

“Men are generally too much attached to their native countries to leave it and dissolve all their connexions, unless they are driven to it by necessity,” Hamilton wrote in 1775.

From New York Times