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gramrel

gramrel noun: a relation in which a word frequently appears with another in certain types of collocations, such as being the subject of a verb or a modifier of a noun.

Noun

gramrel (plural gramrels)

  1. (Sketch Engine, corpus linguistics) A relation in which a word frequently appears with another in certain types of collocations, such as being the subject of a verb or a modifier of a noun.
    • I asked Martin to use Sketch Engine to create a profile of bro—a brofile! In the New Monitor Corpus, she searched for "bro modifier noun." We were looking for "gramrels"—grammatical relationships. The software displayed words most associated with bro.2025, Stefan Fatsis, Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, page 94

Forms of gramrel

pluralgramrels

Origin of gramrel

From gram(matical) + rel(ation).

Questions about gramrel

What does gramrel mean?
Gramrel means a relation in which a word frequently appears with another in certain types of collocations, such as being the subject of a verb or a modifier of a noun.
What part of speech is gramrel?
Gramrel is a noun.
What is the plural of gramrel?
The plural of gramrel is gramrels.

Words near gramrel in the dictionary

  1. gramps
  2. grampus
  3. Grampus griseus endogenous virus
  4. grampuses
  5. grampy
  6. gramrel
  7. gramrels
  8. grams
  9. Gramscian
  10. Gramscianism
  11. Gramscians

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