Word Meanings - COMMUNICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. (more info) 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of

Additional info about word: COMMUNICATION

A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie. Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. (more info) 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret. 2. Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence. Argument . . . and friendly communication. Shak. 3. Association; company. Evil communications corrupt manners. 1 Cor. xv. 33. 4. Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection. The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe. Arbuthnot. 5. That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message. 6. Participation in the Lord's supper. Bp. Pearson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMUNICATION)

• Commerce
• Trade
• traffic
• merchandize
• barter
• exchange
• business
• communication
• dealing
• intercourse
• Connection
• Junction
• junction
• union
• association
• concatenation
• relation
• affinity
• relevance
• Unarm an
• relationship
• kindred
• Correspondence
• Fitness
• agreement
• adaptation
• congruity
• answerableness
• match
• congeniality
• letter
• writing
• despatches
• Dealing
• Intercourse
• trade
• negotiation
• commerce
• practice
• Letter
• Epistle
• note
• message
• missive

Related words: (words related to COMMUNICATION)

• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• TRAFFICLESS
  Destitute of traffic, or trade.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• FITNESS
  The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• TRAFFIC MILE
  Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage. Traffic mile is a term designed to furnish an excuse
• BARTER
  1. The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods. The spirit of huckstering and barter. Burke. 2. The thing given in exchange. Syn. -- Exchange; dealing; traffic; trade; truck.
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• CONGRUITY
  Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• MESSAGE STICK
  A stick, carved with lines and dots, used, esp. by Australian aborigines, to convey information.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• TYPEWRITING
  The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• INTERCOMMUNICATION
  Mutual communication. Owen.