communication

com-mu-ni-ca-tion · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    The act or process of exchanging information, ideas, or feelings.

  2. 2.

    A message or information that is shared.

  3. 3.

    The means of sending or receiving information, such as telephone lines or computers.

  4. 4.

    The field of study concerned with the transmission of information.

  5. 5.

    (communications) The systems or technologies used for sending and receiving messages.

Forms

plural: communications

Related words

Antonyms: silence
See also: communicate, communications, communique
Synonyms: contact, correspondence, exchange, transmission

Etymology

From Latin communicatio ("a sharing, communication"), from communicare ("to share"). The word has been used in English since the 14th century.