'liaison' definitions:
Definition of 'liaison'
(from WordNet)
noun
A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn: affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour]
noun
A channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas" [syn: liaison, link, contact, inter-group communication]
Definition of 'liaison'
From: GCIDE
- liaison \li`ai`son"\ (l[-e]`[asl]`z[^o]N"), n. [F., fr. L. ligatio, fr. ligare to bind. See Ligature, and cf. Ligation.]
- 1. A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; an interrelationship. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically, An illicit sexual relation between a man and a woman; a sexual afffair. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Specifically: A process of communication between parts of an organization or between two organizations acting together for a common purpose. [PJC]
- 4. Hence: A person whose function it is to maintain such communication. [PJC]
- 5. (Phonetics) A pronunciation of a consonant sound that would be otherwise silent, such as the final consonant of certain French words, when the following word begins with a vowel sound. [PJC] Liane
Synonyms of 'liaison'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accord,
- addition,
- adjunct,
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- affair,
- affairs,
- affiliation,
- affinity,
- agent,
- agglomeration,
- agglutination,
- aggregation,
- alliance,
- amor,
- amour,
- approximation,
- articulation,
- assemblage,
- association,
- bond,
- bracketing,
- broker,
- closeness,
- clustering,
- combination,
- communication,
- concatenation,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confluence,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjugation,
- conjunction,
- connectedness,
- connection,
- contact,
- contiguity,
- contrariety,
- convergence,
- copulation,
- coupling,
- cuckoldry,
- dealings,
- deduction,
- disjunction,
- distributor,
- entanglement,
- eternal triangle,
- filiation,
- flirtation,
- forbidden love,
- gathering,
- go-between,
- hanky-panky,
- homology,
- hookup,
- illicit love,
- infidelity,
- intercommunication,
- intercourse,
- interlinking,
- intermediary,
- intermedium,
- intimacy,
- intrigue,
- jobber,
- joinder,
- joining,
- jointure,
- junction,
- knotting,
- link,
- linkage,
- linking,
- love affair,
- marriage,
- mediary,
- mediator,
- medium,
- meeting,
- merger,
- merging,
- middleman,
- mutual attraction,
- nearness,
- pairing,
- propinquity,
- proximity,
- rapport,
- relatedness,
- relation,
- relations,
- relationship,
- romance,
- romantic tie,
- similarity,
- splice,
- symbiosis,
- sympathy,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- triangle,
- unfaithfulness,
- unification,
- union,
- wholesaler,
- yoking