Definition of Collocations

1. Noun. (plural of collocation) ¹

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Definition of Collocations

1. collocation [n] - See also: collocation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Collocations

collisions
collisive
collitigant
collitigants
collocabilities
collocability
collocable
collocal
collocate
collocate with
collocated
collocates
collocating
collocation
collocational
collocations
collocative
collocution
collocutions
collocutor
collocutors
collodia
collodion
collodion vesicans
collodionize
collodionized
collodionizes
collodionizing
collodions

Literary usage of Collocations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of by John Stuart Mill (1898)
"... uniformity is itself a law of causation, (resulting from the combination of several causes,) it is not altogether independent of collocations. ..."

2. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"The other collocations of words, which multiply themselves in the modern tongue, rest essentially upon this, that we comprise the preposition following the ..."

3. Logic by Alexander Bain (1870)
"Yet worse perplexities surround the collocations for transferring force in Living Bodies. Even the simplest case—the production of Animal ..."

4. Sketches of Old Times and Distant Places by John Sinclair (1875)
"Comparing the Universe to a watch, we may affirm of the collocations of nature ... The distinction between the laws of nature and the collocations of nature ..."

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