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word combination > collocation

Preferred term

collocation  

Type

  • Microstructure feature

  • owl:NamedIndividual

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Description

  • a combination of words (adjective-noun, verb-preposition) that have a certain mutual expectancy, that have a great likelihood of co-occurring, for example, false expectation, hot coffee, nice surprise. Collocations vary in the degree to which one lexical unit expects another to occur with it. Collocations are more fixed than free combinations and less fixed than idioms.
  • frequent occurrence of words next to each other

In other languages

  • kolokazio

    Basque

  • col·locació

    Catalan

  • Sousloví

    Czech

  • Collocatie

    Dutch

  • Kollokaatio

    Finnish

  • collocation

    French

  • Kollokation

    German

  • Comhlogaíocht

    Irish

  • collocazione

    Italian

  • Kolokacija

    Lithuanian

  • kolokacja

    Polish

  • colocação

    Portuguese

  • Коллокация

    Russian

  • Колокације

    Serbian

  • Kolokacija

    Slovenian

  • colocación

    Spanish

  • kollokation

    Swedish

  • Сполучення слів

    Ukrainian

URI

http://w3id.org/meta-share/lexmeta/collocation

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