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reduplications

reduplications is the plural of reduplication.

Meaning of reduplication

Noun

reduplication (countable and uncountable, plural reduplications)

  1. The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating.
    • Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256
  2. The folding or doubling of a part or organ.

Questions about reduplications

What is reduplications the plural of?
Reduplications is the plural of reduplication.

Words near reduplications in the dictionary

  1. reduplicately
  2. reduplicates
  3. reduplicating
  4. reduplication
  5. reduplicational
  6. reduplications
  7. reduplicative
  8. reduplicatively
  9. reduplicatives
  10. reduplicativity
  11. reduplicator

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