"junction" meaning in English

See junction in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/ Audio: en-us-junction.ogg [US] Forms: junction [singular], junctions [plural]
Etymology: join + -tion Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|join|tion}} join + -tion Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A junction is a place where different things of the same kind come together, especially roads.
    Sense id: simple-junction-en-noun-jLtYG1oU
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -tion
{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Terms suffixed with -tion",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "join",
        "2": "tion"
      },
      "expansion": "join + -tion",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "join + -tion",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "junction",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "junctions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It's at the junction of Pearl and Cherry streets in busy Franklin Square."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A junction is a place where different things of the same kind come together, especially roads."
      ],
      "id": "simple-junction-en-noun-jLtYG1oU",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-junction.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "junction"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Terms suffixed with -tion"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "join",
        "2": "tion"
      },
      "expansion": "join + -tion",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "join + -tion",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "junction",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "junctions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It's at the junction of Pearl and Cherry streets in busy Franklin Square."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A junction is a place where different things of the same kind come together, especially roads."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒʌŋkʃən/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-junction.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "junction"
}

Download raw JSONL data for junction meaning in English (0.8kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.