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co-predication

co-predication is the alternative spelling of copredication.

Meaning of copredication

Noun

copredication (countable and uncountable, plural copredications)

  1. The simultaneous application of multiple predicates to a single argument, each selecting a distinct and normally incompatible facet of its meaning.
    • Consider, for instance, lunches. Lunches can be events but they are also meals and as such physical objects. As a result, lunch supports felicitous copredications in which one predicate selects for the event sense of lunch while the other selects for the physical object or meal sense.2011, Nicholas Asher, Lexical Meaning in Context: A Web of Words, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 11

Forms of co-predication

pluralco-predications

Origin of co-predication

From co- + predication.

Questions about co-predication

What is co-predication the alternative spelling of?
Co-predication is the alternative spelling of copredication.

Words near co-predication in the dictionary

  1. co-piloting
  2. co-pilots
  3. co-planarity
  4. co-precipitation
  5. co-precipitations
  6. co-predication
  7. co-presence
  8. co-present
  9. co-president
  10. co-President Musk
  11. co-presidents

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Adapted from Wiktionary: co-predication (page history and authors); copredication (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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