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collocator

collocator noun: a word which often or regularly collocates with another word.

Noun

collocator (plural collocators)

  1. A word which often or regularly collocates with another word.
    • The collocator is familiar to the speaker of English who is not aware of its idiomaticity, while for the foreign language learner it is unpredictable, because his/her mother tongue privileges another word.2014, Rufus Gouws, Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography: Supplementary Volume: Recent Developments with Focus on Electronic and Computational Lexicography, Walter de Gruyter...

Forms of collocator

pluralcollocators

Words that rhyme with collocator

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Questions about collocator

What does collocator mean?
Collocator means a word which often or regularly collocates with another word.
What part of speech is collocator?
Collocator is a noun.
What is the plural of collocator?
The plural of collocator is collocators.

Words near collocator in the dictionary

  1. collocation extraction
  2. collocational
  3. collocationally
  4. collocations
  5. collocative
  6. collocator
  7. collocators
  8. collocatory
  9. collochemistry
  10. collocution
  11. collocutions

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