| NOUN | communication | continuative, conjunction, conjunctive, connective | an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences |
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| Meaning | An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences. | |
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| Synonyms | conjunction, conjunctive, connective | |
| Narrower | coordinating conjunction | A conjunction (like 'and' or 'or') that connects two identically constructed grammatical constituents |
| subordinating conjunction, subordinate conjunction | A conjunction (like 'since' or 'that' or 'who') that introduces a dependent clause | |
| Broader | function word, closed-class word | A word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning / meaning |
| Spanish | conjunción, conjuntiva | |
| Catalan | conjunció, conjuntiva | |
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