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reduplication
[ ri-doo-pli-key-shuhn, -dyoo- ]
noun
- the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- something resulting from reduplicating.
- Grammar.
- reduplicating as a grammatical pattern.
- the added element in a reduplicated form.
- a form containing a reduplicated element.
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Other Words From
- self-re·dupli·cation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of reduplication1
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Example Sentences
And this reduplication of the grievous mistake he had made on the field of Ligny was absolutely fatal.
The most characteristic examples of reduplication are such as repeat only part of the radical element.
What the four-post bedstead but a reduplication of the original type, a table placed on a table, the upper one being laid open?
Ogus, and with the reduplication Ogugus, was the same as Ogyges, in whose time the flood was supposed to have happened.
Valve as in type, but with internal divisions as though in the process of reduplication.
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