The apposition in the title has been read as indicating that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is equivalent to ‘colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases’.
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Apposition
//ˌæpəˈzɪʃn̩//
Synonyms for "apposition" (14 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (4)
Related words (7)
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2 entriesderived
3 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
Translations
44 translations across 24 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- ndajshtim noun (grammatical construction)
Arabic
1 entries- بدل noun (grammatical construction)
Bulgarian
1 entries- приложение noun (grammatical construction)
Catalan
3 entries- aposició noun (grammatical construction)
- aposició noun (placing of two things side by side)
- aposició noun (biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 同位語 /同位语 noun (grammatical construction)
Czech
1 entries- přístavek noun (grammatical construction)
Danish
2 entries- navnesamstilling noun (grammatical construction)
- navnetillæg noun (grammatical construction)
Dutch
2 entries- appositie noun (grammatical construction)
- bijstelling noun (grammatical construction)
Finnish
4 entries- appositio noun (grammatical construction)
- appositio noun (biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall)
- kerrostuminen noun (biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall)
- rinnakkaisuus noun (quality of being side by side)
French
1 entries- apposition noun (grammatical construction)
German
4 entries- Apposition noun (grammatical construction)
- Apposition noun (biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall)
- Beifügung noun (grammatical construction)
- Beisatz noun (grammatical construction)
Greek
1 entries- παράθεση noun (grammatical construction)
Ido
1 entries- adpozo noun (grammatical construction)
Irish
1 entries- comhaisnéis noun (grammatical construction)
Italian
1 entries- apposizione noun (grammatical construction)
Japanese
1 entries- 同格 noun (grammatical construction)
Manx
1 entries- co-aishnys noun (grammatical construction)
Mongolian
2 entries- хамжсан үг noun (grammatical construction)
- ᠬᠠᠮᠵᠢᠭᠰᠠᠨ ᠦᠭᠡ noun (grammatical construction)
Polish
2 entries- apozycja noun (grammatical construction)
- apozycja noun (biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall)
Portuguese
4 entries- aposição noun (grammatical construction)
- aposição noun (quality of being side by side)
- aposição noun (placing of two things side by side)
- aposição noun (biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall)
Romanian
1 entries- apoziție noun (grammatical construction)
Russian
1 entries- приложе́ние noun (grammatical construction)
Spanish
1 entries- aposición noun (grammatical construction)
Swedish
2 entries- apposition noun (grammatical construction)
- apposition noun (relationship in such construction)
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