Usually means: Two independent clauses, one sentence.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word compound sentence:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. compound sentence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. compound sentence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. compound sentence: Collins English Dictionary
  4. compound sentence: Vocabulary.com
  5. compound sentence: Wiktionary
  6. compound sentence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. compound sentence: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. compound sentence: Dictionary.com
  9. Compound sentence (linguistics), Compound sentence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. compound sentence: Rhymezone
  11. compound sentence: FreeDictionary.org
  12. compound sentence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. compound sentence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. compound sentence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See compound_sentences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (compound sentence)

noun:  (grammar) A sentence that has two or more independent clauses, joined by a conjunction (such as 'but', 'and') and/or punctuation (such as ',').

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