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collocators

collocators is the plural of collocator.

Meaning of collocator

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...

Questions about collocators

What is collocators the plural of?
Collocators is the plural of collocator.

Words near collocators in the dictionary

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

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