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appositions

appositions is the plural of apposition.

Meaning of apposition

Noun

apposition (countable and uncountable, plural appositions)

  1. A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
    • The apposition in the title has been read as indicating that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is equivalent to ‘colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases’.2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 65
    Synonyms:
    parathesis
  2. The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
  3. The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
  4. A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
  5. The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
  6. (rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.

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Questions about appositions

What is appositions the plural of?
Appositions is the plural of apposition.

Words near appositions in the dictionary

  1. apposition
  2. appositional
  3. appositionally
  4. appositionals
  5. appositioned
  6. appositions
  7. appositive
  8. appositive clause
  9. appositive clauses
  10. appositively
  11. appositives

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