A collocation consists of words that are often found together.
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Collocation
//ˌkɒl.əˈkeɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "collocation" (54 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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8 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
11 entriesderived
5 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
34 translations across 23 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- բառակապակցություն noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Catalan
1 entries- col·locació noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 搭配詞 /搭配词 noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Czech
1 entries- kolokace noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Dutch
1 entries- collocatie noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Finnish
1 entries- kollokaatio noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
French
2 entries- collocation noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
- collocation noun (method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary mathematical differential equation)
Georgian
2 entries- კოლოკაცია noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
- შესიტყვება noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
German
3 entries- Kollokation noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
- Wortverbindung noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
- Zusammenstellung noun (grouping or juxtaposition)
Hindi
4 entries- अन्वित विन्यास noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
- संगत संबंध noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
- संस्थिति noun (grouping or juxtaposition)
- सहसंबंध noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Hungarian
2 entries- kollokáció noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
- állandósult szókapcsolat noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Italian
1 entries- collocazione noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Japanese
1 entries- 連語 noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Maltese
1 entries- kollokazzjoni noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Māori
1 entries- kupu piritahi noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Norwegian
1 entries- kollokasjon noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Polish
1 entries- kolokacja noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Portuguese
1 entries- colocação noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Romanian
1 entries- colocație noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Russian
1 entries- словосочета́ние noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Spanish
3 entries- coaparición noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
- colocación noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
- coubicación noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Ukrainian
2 entries- колока́ція noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
- словосполу́чення noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Welsh
1 entries- cydleoliad noun ((linguistics) combination of words occurring more frequently than by chance)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
That's not a common collocation in French.
Source: tatoeba (10455264)
Everything in fact depends in Chinese on the proper collocation of words in a sentence. Thus ngò tà ni means “I beat thee;” but ni tà ngò would mean “Thou beatest me.”
Source: wiktionary
It drowsed like the older New England cities which one remembers from boyhood, and something in the collocation of roofs and steeples and chimneys and brick walls formed contours touching deep viol-strings of ancestral emotion.
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