A collocation consists of words that are often found together.
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Collocation
/ˌkɒl.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/
Synonyms for "collocation" (61 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (30)
ladingloadinglocatinglocationmobilizationmusterorderorderingpackingphrasepinpointingplacementpositioningpostingregimentationrodeoroundupsituationstoragestowage
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Noun(6 words)
lexical cooccurrencelexical pairingphrase usageset phrasewater dailyword pairing
Adjective(1 words)
social studies topic
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13 entrieseducational conceptemplacementlanguage patternlanguage teaching practicelanguage unitlinguistic phenomenonlinguistic unitlinguistics conceptlocatinglocationplacementpositionpositioning
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3 entriesadjective noun collocationnoun noun collocationverb noun collocation
Collocations
5 entriesInflections
2 entriesDerivations
2 entriesSample sentences
13 total sentences available.
That's not a common collocation in French.
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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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