Word of the Day:
elision
What It Means
The deliberate omission of something.
The omission of a letter or syllable between two words or inside a word; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.
See also: contraction, apheresis, apocope, syncope
Did You Know?
From Latin ēlīsiō (“striking out, forcing out”) (whence -ion (“noun suffix denoting action, result, process, state, condition”)), from ēlīsus (“knocked out, forced out”), past participle of ēlīdō (“to knock, dash or strike out”) (whence elide), from ex- (“out, away”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence e- (“assimilated form of ex-”)).
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