connected

adjective

con·​nect·​ed kə-ˈnek-təd How to pronounce connected (audio)
1
: joined or linked together
2
: having the parts or elements logically linked together
presented a thoroughly connected view of the problem
3
: related by blood or marriage
4
: having social, professional, or commercial relationships
a well-connected lawyer
5
of a set : having the property that any two of its points can be joined by a line completely contained in the set
also : incapable of being separated into two or more closed disjoint subsets
connectedly adverb
connectedness noun

Examples of connected in a Sentence

a series of connected rooms
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There are also simpler connected family rooms, one with a queen and the other with two twins. Celeste Moure, AFAR Media, 2 May 2025 Plus, it’s got 4x 2.5G ports for wired connections, so your devices stay connected at top speeds. Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 2 May 2025 In a recent study by Perficient, manufacturers of connected products ranked trust as the absolute lowest of influential factors for a customer’s purchase decision, whereas consumers ranked it the highest, and commercial users ranked it the second highest. Steve Tengler, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025 Also on Thursday, Anthropic debuted its Advanced Research tool, which allows Claude to write longer and more comprehensive research reports after searching the web, a user's Google Workspace and other connected apps. Hayden Field, CNBC, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for connected

Word History

First Known Use

1712, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of connected was in 1712

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“Connected.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/connected. Accessed 10 May. 2025.

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