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contact
What does contact mean?
contact (noun): close interaction.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use contact in a sentence?
- They kept in daily contact. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
- They claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
Where does contact come from?
From Latin contactus, from contingō (“to touch on all sides”), from tangō (“to touch”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “contact” mean?
people in general
Not quite: that's what folk means.
degree or amount
Not quite: that's what level means.
close interaction
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a female domestic
Not quite: that's what maid means.
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