Definition of liaison Liaison

/liejˈzɑˌn/ - [leeeyzan] - li•ai•son

We found 12 definitions of liaison from 5 different sources.

What does liaison mean?

Noun Plural: liaisons
liaison - a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas"
		link, contact, inter-group communication
		communication channel, channel, line a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through; "the fields were crossed with irrigation channels"; "gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street"
liaison - a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
		affair, affaire, intimacy, involvement, amour

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liaison (Noun)
Communication between two parties or groups.
liaison (Noun)
Co-operation, working together.
liaison (Noun)
A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
liaison (Noun)
A tryst, romantic meeting.
liaison (Noun)
An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
liaison (Noun)
The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il".
liaison (Verb)
To liaise.

liaison (n.)
A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

liaison
lē-ā-zong′, n. union, or bond of union: connection, esp. if illicit between the sexes: in French, the linking in pronunciation of a final consonant to the succeeding word, when that begins with a vowel. [Fr.—L. ligation-em—ligāre, to bind.]