Meanings
nouncommunication (countable and uncountable, plural communications)
plural communications
- countableuncountableThe act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
communication of smallpox
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communication of a secret
- uncountableThe concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
The node had established communication with the network, but had as yet sent no data.
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Some say that communication is a necessary prerequisite for sentience; others say that it is a result thereof.
- countableuncountableThe body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
The subpoena required that the company document their communication with the plaintiff.
- countableuncountableAn instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
The professors' communications consisted of lively discussions via email.
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Argument […] and friendly communication.
1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii] - countableuncountableA passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
A round archway at the far end of the hallway provided communication to the main chamber.
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The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe.
1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertationsThis communication between the tank and pump is controlled by a float valve in the tanks and a cock in the pipe, while a poppet valve prevents the undrawn liquor going into the waste tank.
1900, Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications, page 75 - countableuncountableanatomyA connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
...and here a free communication had been established between the aorta and the vena cava.
1855, William Stokes, The Diseases of the Heart and the Aorta Page 617 - countableobsoleteuncountableAssociation; company.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Bible Corinthians/#15 1 Corinthians:15–33 - countableuncountableParticipation in Holy Communion.
We admit them in the Church to a right of Communication to drink of the Cup of the Bloud of Christ.
1672, William Cave, Primitive Christianity - countablerhetoricuncountableA trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says "we" instead of "I" or "you".
Communication[…]takes place when a speaker or writer assumes his hearer or reader as a partner in his sentiments and discourse, saying We, instead of I or Ye.
1798, James Beattie, Elements of Moral Science
Synonyms & antonyms
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bi-directional communicationconfidential communicationinterprocess communicationmiscommunicationnetwork communicationnoncommunicationone-directional communicationprivileged communicationtelecommunication
nounthe activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information
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Origin
- Latincommūnicātiōnem
- Old Frenchcommunicacion
- Middle Englishcomunicacioun
- Englishcommunication
Inherited from Middle English comunicacioun, communicacion (“discussion, association”), from Old French communicacion, from Latin commūnicātiōnem, accusative singular of commūnicātiō (“imparting, communicating”), from commūnicō (“to share, to impart”). Morphologically communicate + -ion.
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Arabic اِتِّصَالَات, اِتِّصَال
- اِتِّصَالَات (ittiṣālāt)concept of exchanging information
- اِتِّصَال (ittiṣāl)concept of exchanging information
- رِسَالَة (risāla)message
- خَبَر (ḵabar)message
- مَعْلُومَة (maʕlūma)message
Bengali যোগাযোগ
- যোগাযোগ (jōgajōg)concept of exchanging information
Bulgarian общу́ване, обще́ние
- общу́ване (obštúvane)concept of exchanging information
- обще́ние (obšténie)concept of exchanging information
- връ́зка (vrắzka)concept of exchanging information
- комуника́ция (komunikácija)concept of exchanging information
- съобще́ние (săobšténie)message
- съобще́ние (săobšténie)body of data exchange
Catalan comunicació
- comunicacióconcept of exchanging information
Chinese Cantonese 通信, 溝通 /沟通
- 通信concept of exchanging information
- 溝通 /沟通 (kau¹ tung¹ / gau¹ tung¹)concept of exchanging information
- 交流 (gaau¹ lau⁴)concept of exchanging information
Chinese Mandarin 通信, 溝通 /沟通
- 通信 (tōngxìn)concept of exchanging information
- 溝通 /沟通 (gōutōng)concept of exchanging information
- 交流 (jiāoliú)concept of exchanging information
- 訊息 /讯息 (xùnxí)message
- 通訊設施 /通讯设施 (tōngxìn shèshī)body of data exchange
- 通信 (tōngxìn)instance of data transfer
Czech dorozumívání, komunikace
- dorozumíváníconcept of exchanging information
- komunikaceconcept of exchanging information
- zprávamessage
Danish kommunikation, kommunikation
- kommunikationact or fact of communicating anything
- kommunikationconcept of exchanging information
- forbindelseconcept of exchanging information
Dutch communicatie, verbinding
- communicatieconcept of exchanging information
- verbindingconcept of exchanging information
Esperanto komunikado
- komunikadoact or fact of communicating anything
Estonian kommunikatsioon, side
- kommunikatsioonconcept of exchanging information
- sideconcept of exchanging information
Finnish kommunikointi, kommunikaatio
- kommunikointiact or fact of communicating anything
- kommunikaatioact or fact of communicating anything
- viestintäact or fact of communicating anything
- välitysact or fact of communicating anything
- yhteydenpitoconcept of exchanging information
- kommunikaatioconcept of exchanging information
- viestintäconcept of exchanging information
- yhteydenottomessage
- viestimessage
- sanomabody of data exchange
- kanssakäymineninstance of data transfer
- kulkuyhteyspassageway or opening
French communication, communication
- communicationact or fact of communicating anything
- communicationconcept of exchanging information
- communicationmessage
- messagemessage
- communicationbody of data exchange
- communicationinstance of data transfer
- communicationconnection between tissues
German Kommunikation, Kommunikation
- Kommunikationact or fact of communicating anything
- Kommunikationconcept of exchanging information
- Informationsaustauschconcept of exchanging information
- Kommunikationmessage
- Mitteilungmessage
- Kommunikationsdatenbody of data exchange
- Kommunikationinstance of data transfer
- Durchgangpassageway or opening
- Verbindungconnection between tissues
Greek επικοινωνία, επικοινωνία
- επικοινωνία (epikoinonía)concept of exchanging information
- επικοινωνία (epikoinonía)message
Hebrew תקשורת \ תִּקְשֹׁרֶת, קֶשֶׁר
- תקשורת \ תִּקְשֹׁרֶת (tikshóret)concept of exchanging information
- קֶשֶׁר (késher)concept of exchanging information
- מֶסֶר (méser)message
- הוֹדָעָה (hoda'á)message
- מֶסֶר (méser)instance of data transfer
- הוֹדָעָה (hoda'á)instance of data transfer
- מַעֲבָר (ma'avár)passageway or opening
Hindi संचार, सन्देश
- संचार (sañcār)concept of exchanging information
- सन्देश (sandeś)message
Hungarian kommunikáció, átadás
- kommunikációact or fact of communicating anything
- átadásact or fact of communicating anything
- továbbadásact or fact of communicating anything
- továbbításact or fact of communicating anything
- átvitelact or fact of communicating anything
- érintkezésconcept of exchanging information
- közlésconcept of exchanging information
- kommunikációconcept of exchanging information
- kapcsolatconcept of exchanging information
- kapcsolattartásconcept of exchanging information
- hírközlésconcept of exchanging information
- távközlésconcept of exchanging information
Icelandic samskipti
- samskipticoncept of exchanging information
Indonesian komunikasi, komunikasi
- komunikasiact or fact of communicating anything
- komunikasiconcept of exchanging information
Irish cumarsáid
- cumarsáidconcept of exchanging information
Italian comunicazione, comunicazione
- comunicazioneact or fact of communicating anything
- comunicazioneconcept of exchanging information
- avvisomessage
- comunicazionebody of data exchange
- comunicazioneinstance of data transfer
- trasmissioneinstance of data transfer
- comunicazionepassageway or opening
- collegamentopassageway or opening
- comunioneparticipation in Holy Communion
- comunicazioneconnection between tissues
Japanese 交流, 対話
- 交流 (kōryū)concept of exchanging information
- 対話 (taiwa)concept of exchanging information
- 遣り取り (yaritori)concept of exchanging information
- 通信 (tsūshin)concept of exchanging information
- コミュニケーション (komyunikēshon)concept of exchanging information
- 意思疎通 (ishi sotsuu)concept of exchanging information
- 伝言 (dengon)message
Korean 통신, 커뮤니케이션
- 통신 (tongsin)concept of exchanging information
- 커뮤니케이션 (keomyunikeisyeon)concept of exchanging information
- 소통 (sotong)concept of exchanging information
- 의사소통 (uisasotong)concept of exchanging information
- 소식 (sosik)message
Latin commūnicātiō
- commūnicātiōconcept of exchanging information
Latvian saziņa, komunikācija
- saziņaconcept of exchanging information
- komunikācijaconcept of exchanging information
Lithuanian bendravimas, komunikacija
- bendravimasconcept of exchanging information
- komunikacijaconcept of exchanging information
Malay perhubungan, komunikasi
- perhubunganconcept of exchanging information
- komunikasiconcept of exchanging information
- komunikasiconnection between tissues
Norwegian Bokmål kommunikasjon, kommunikasjon
- kommunikasjonconcept of exchanging information
- kommunikasjonmessage
- kommunikasjonbody of data exchange
- kommunikasjoninstance of data transfer
Polish komunikacja, wiadomość
- komunikacjaconcept of exchanging information
- wiadomośćmessage
- komunikacjapassageway or opening
Portuguese comunicação, comunicação
- comunicaçãoact or fact of communicating anything
- comunicaçãoconcept of exchanging information
- comunicaçãomessage
- comunicadomessage
- comunicaçãopassageway or opening
- comunhãoparticipation in Holy Communion
- comunicaçãoconnection between tissues
- conexãoconnection between tissues
Romanian comunicare, comunicare
- comunicareact or fact of communicating anything
- comunicareconcept of exchanging information
- comunicațieconcept of exchanging information
- comunicaremessage
- vestemessage
- știremessage
- mesajmessage
- comunicațiepassageway or opening
- legăturăconnection between tissues
Russian распростране́ние, переда́ча
- распростране́ние (rasprostranénije)act or fact of communicating anything
- переда́ча (peredáča)act or fact of communicating anything
- сообще́ние (soobščénije)act or fact of communicating anything
- коммуника́ция (kommunikácija)concept of exchanging information
- обще́ние (obščénije)concept of exchanging information
- связь (svjazʹ)concept of exchanging information
- сообще́ние (soobščénije)concept of exchanging information
- сообще́ние (soobščénije)message
- сообще́ние (soobščénije)body of data exchange
- сообще́ние (soobščénije)instance of data transfer
- сообще́ние (soobščénije)passageway or opening
- причаще́ние (pričaščénije)participation in Holy Communion
Slovak komunikácia, dorozumenie
- komunikáciaconcept of exchanging information
- dorozumenieconcept of exchanging information
- správamessage
Spanish comunicación, comunicación
- comunicaciónact or fact of communicating anything
- comunicaciónconcept of exchanging information
- comunicadomessage
Swahili mawasiliano
- mawasilianoconcept of exchanging information
Swedish kommunikation, kommunikation
- kommunikationact or fact of communicating anything
- kommunikationconcept of exchanging information
- kommunikationmessage
- kommunikationinstance of data transfer
Tagalog komunikasyon, pahatiran
- komunikasyonact or fact of communicating anything
- pahatiranconcept of exchanging information
- komunikasyonconcept of exchanging information
- pahatidmessage
- mensahemessage
- pahatiraninstance of data transfer
Thai การสื่อสาร, คมนาคม
- การสื่อสาร (gaan-sʉ̀ʉ-sǎan)concept of exchanging information
- คมนาคม (ká-má-naa-kom)concept of exchanging information
Turkish iletişim, komünikasyon
- iletişimact or fact of communicating anything
- komünikasyonact or fact of communicating anything
- komünikasyonconcept of exchanging information
- iletişimconcept of exchanging information
- mesajmessage
- veri transferibody of data exchange
- iletişiminstance of data transfer
- geçitpassageway or opening
- pasajpassageway or opening
- bağlantıconnection between tissues
Ukrainian комуніка́ція, спілкува́ння
- комуніка́ція (komunikácija)concept of exchanging information
- спілкува́ння (spilkuvánnja)concept of exchanging information
- повідо́млення (povidómlennja)message
Urdu اِبْلاغ, رابْطَہ
- اِبْلاغ (iblāġ)concept of exchanging information
- رابْطَہ (rābta)concept of exchanging information
- مُواصَلات (muāsalāt)concept of exchanging information
- رابِطَہ (rābita)concept of exchanging information
- رِسالَہ (risāla)message
- پَیغام (paiġām)message
Vietnamese truyền thông
- truyền thôngconcept of exchanging information
Welsh cyfathrebiad, cymunicasiwn
- cyfathrebiadconcept of exchanging information
- cymunicasiwnconcept of exchanging information
Yiddish קאָמוניקאַציע
- קאָמוניקאַציע (komunikatsye)concept of exchanging information
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with communication
informationeducationlocationapplicationassociationadministrationorganizationcorporationregistrationAsianfoundationpopulationnavigationstationaccommodationoperationpublicationvacationtransportationevaluationimplementationinstallationnationdocumentation
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APA
communication. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/communication
MLA
“communication.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/communication. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “communication,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/communication.
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