liaison, link, contact, inter-group communication
(noun) a channel for communication between groups; “he provided a liaison with the guerrillas”
affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour
(noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
Source: WordNet® 3.1
liaison (countable and uncountable, plural liaisons)
Communication between two parties or groups.
Co-operation, working together.
A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
A tryst, romantic meeting.
(figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
(linguistics) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il".
Hypernym: sandhi
liaison (third-person singular simple present liaisons, present participle liaisoning, simple past and past participle liaisoned)
(proscribed) To liaise.
• isolani
Source: Wiktionary
Li`ai`son", n. Etym: [F., fr. L. ligatio, fr. ligare to bind. See Ligature, and cf. Ligation.]
Definition: A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
