connect – English noun declension

English noun forms of connect

Noun: connect
Singularconnect
Pluralconnects

Sample Sentences

  • My connects in Chicago are telling me all kinds of things. Nobody knows anything for sure except that Griffith is missing and money is missing. [2013, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Victoria Christopher Murray, Friends & Foes, page 100:]
  • The affidavit says the source wore a recording device during one conversation with the drug dealer, who said the officer "was doing this for big money and does runs for several connects in Bmore. Not just weed, but heroin as well, a few times coke." [2018 November 20, Justin Fenton, “Documents show FBI was investigating Baltimore officer, who has since resigned, for alleged drug trafficking”, in The Baltimore Sun, archived from the original on 23 May 2022:]
  • I called all my connects, but they were completely dry too. [2021, Mike Majlak, Riley J. Ford, The Fifth Vital:]
  • Even though I did not have a lot of connects in Silicon Valley, I was not concerned because I knew that Silicon Valley was not going to solve this problem. [2019 August 3, Lauren Floyd, quoting Melissa Hanna, “People 'Took One Look at Me' and Doubted 'I could build a Million-Dollar' Company, Says Founder of Mahmee App That Attracted $3M From Mark Cuban, Serena Williams”, in Atlanta Black Star, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2020:]
  • Now that you look the part, hopefully, you have some connects because nothing looks worse than paying to get into a club! [2019 August 28, Chris Black, “Ask Chris Black: How Do You Keep Your Clothes Looking (and Smelling) Fresh?”, in New York Magazine, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:]
  • My agent has a lot of connects so he's always in talks with people. [2020 May 27, Catherine Healey, quoting Bryce Cotton, “Perth Wildcats star Bryce Cotton won't be caged if NBA offer comes”, in The West Australian, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2022:]
  • We wanted to try something new, that's when we started a lot of our influencing on social media. It was a lot of connects but we realized when we came home, we had more resources. More of our close friends. [2020 November 3, Shirley Ju, quoting Cyrus Dobre, “Cyrus Dobre On Positive Energy, "Bye Bye" & Making People Smile”, in Flaunt, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
4. Proto-Italic *kom
5. Proto-Italic *kom-
6. Latin con-
7. Latin nectō
8. Latin cōnectō
9. Latin connectō
10. English connect
11. From Latin connectere (“fasten together”), from con- (“together”) + nectere (“bind”), which is cognate with English knot and English knit. See: English Nouns 'knot', English Nouns 'knit'.