appositions

Meaning of appositions

noun
  1. (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
  2. The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
  3. The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
  4. A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
  5. In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
  6. Appositio
  7. A public disputation by scholars.
  8. A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.

Information about appositions

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of appositions is: apposition.
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Hyphenation of appositions

ap-po-si-tions

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • appositions is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

appositions synonyms

Meaning :

parathesis

Words that rhyme with appositions

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