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adnominations

adnominations is the plural of adnomination.

Meaning of adnomination

Noun

adnomination (countable and uncountable, plural adnominations)

  1. A form of wordplay in which phonetically similar words are juxtaposed.
    • The flurry of adnomination (varying a "root" term with prefixes and suffixes, as "luminous," by a kind of home etymology, is turned into "voluminous") — this flurry of punning settles into a joke out of a farce...1994, Mary Kinzie, The judge is fury: dislocation and form in poetry, page 138

Questions about adnominations

What is adnominations the plural of?
Adnominations is the plural of adnomination.

Words near adnominations in the dictionary

  1. adnominalizing
  2. adnominally
  3. adnominals
  4. adnominatio
  5. adnomination
  6. adnominations
  7. adnoun
  8. adnouns
  9. Adnyamathanha
  10. ado
  11. Ado Ekiti

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adnominations (page history and authors); adnomination (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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