reduplication
Americannoun
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the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
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something resulting from reduplicating.
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Grammar.
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reduplicating as a grammatical pattern.
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the added element in a reduplicated form.
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a form containing a reduplicated element.
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noun
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the process or an instance of redoubling
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the state, condition, or quality of being redoubled
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a thing that has been redoubled
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repetition of a sound or syllable in a word, as in the formation of the Latin perfect tetigi from tangere "touch"
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of reduplication
First recorded in 1580–90, reduplication is from the Late Latin word reduplicātiōn- (stem of reduplicātiō ). See reduplicate, -ion
Example Sentences
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We should decry our inability to avoid costly reduplication of services, build more extended-care facilities and low-cost hospitals for the chronically ill, and reduce unnecessary surgery.
From Time Magazine Archive
What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?
From Time Magazine Archive
"Knowledge which is merely a reduplication in ideas of what exists already in the world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all."
From Time Magazine Archive
What the four-post bedstead but a reduplication of the original type, a table placed on a table, the upper one being laid open?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
I never heard of such complete reduplication before—at least among animals.
From The Wonderful Visit by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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