Connection

1. n. The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection.
2. n. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.
3. n. That which connects or joins together; bond; tie.
4. n. A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; — used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.