collocation
noun
the act of collocating.
collocations
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pluralof collocation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The absence of the passive in most, if not all, American tongues is supplied by similar inadequate collocations of words.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton
We piped with a greater facility and to a richer meed of recognition; which sounds as if we might have become, in these strange collocations, fairly offensive little prigs.
From A Small Boy and Others by Henry James
Along with any number of stationary antecedents, which are collocations, there must be at least one changing antecedent, which is a force.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill
Derivative laws, when not casual, are almost always contingent on collocations 78 2.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
It is this capacity of the collocations that is called pramâ@na.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
