Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun conjugation

6 senses of conjugation

Sense 1
junction, conjunction, conjugation, colligation -- (the state of being joined together)
       => union, unification -- (the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union")

Sense 2
conjugation -- (the inflection of verbs)
       => inflection, inflexion -- (a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function)

Sense 3
conjugation -- (the complete set of inflected forms of a verb)
       => set -- (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth")

Sense 4
conjugation -- (a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms)
       => class, category, family -- (a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents")

Sense 5
coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union -- (the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring")
       => sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity -- (activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat")

Sense 6
union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure -- (the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays")
       => combination, combining, compounding -- (the act of combining things to form a new whole)

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