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cataphoras

cataphoras is the plural of cataphora.

Meaning of cataphora

Noun

cataphora (countable and uncountable, plural cataphoras)

  1. (rhetoric) The use of a pronoun, or other linguistic unit, before the noun phrase to which it refers, sometimes used for rhetorical effect.

Questions about cataphoras

What is cataphoras the plural of?
Cataphoras is the plural of cataphora.

Words near cataphoras in the dictionary

  1. cataphiles
  2. cataphonic
  3. cataphonics
  4. cataphor
  5. cataphora
  6. cataphoras
  7. cataphoreses
  8. cataphoresis
  9. cataphoretic
  10. cataphoretically
  11. cataphoric

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