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Antonyms for communication


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kuh-myoo-ni-key-shuh n
Phonetic Transcription : kəˌmyu nɪˈkeɪ ʃən



Definition of communication

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French comunicacion (14c., Modern French communication), from Latin communicationem (nominative communicatio), noun of action from past participle stem of communicare "to share, divide out; communicate, impart, inform; join, unite, participate in," literally "to make common," from communis (see common (adj.)).
  • noun giving, exchanging information, ideas
  • noun information transmitted
Example sentences :
  • Was his father still alive, or was this letter a communication from the dead?
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • Ambrose was the only person who ever received any communication from Giles Headley.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Polar ice would have been thawed by this reopening of communication.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • He did apply, and at the end of a month, no answer had been returned to his communication.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • And yet I know that you will not love my brother the better for my communication.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Trusted officials in great companies were in communication with him.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • It is so many years since I had the least communication with her, or heard anything of her!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Hester was silent, thinking how to begin her communication about Cornelius.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Towards this line of communication the Indian Government now looked.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
  • Somehow she got into communication with this fat rogue and together they plotted it out.
  • Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance

Synonyms for communication

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