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collocant

collocant noun: a word which collocates with another.

Noun

collocant (plural collocants)

  1. A word which collocates with another.
    • Such verbs may come to encapsulate the meaning of the collocant, in which case the body-part may be omitted. The degree to which this occurs varies : 'ațraqa (=he bowed his head) , but not *šammara (he bared […])1991, Journal de linguistique arabe
    • It seems natural to assume that a deviant collocation should be corrected by changing the collocant rather than the base word, but some of the non-native speaker examples cited by Howarth (1998: 177–85) should probably be corrected ...2003, D. J. Allerton, Stretched Verb Constructions in English, Routledge, →ISBN, page 248

Forms of collocant

pluralcollocants

Questions about collocant

What does collocant mean?
Collocant means a word which collocates with another.
What part of speech is collocant?
Collocant is a noun.
What is the plural of collocant?
The plural of collocant is collocants.

Words near collocant in the dictionary

  1. collocal
  2. collocalize
  3. collocalized
  4. collocalizes
  5. collocalizing
  6. collocant
  7. collocants
  8. collocatable
  9. collocate
  10. collocated
  11. collocates

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