apposition
See also: Apposition
English
Etymology
From Middle English apposicioun, from Middle French apposition, from Latin appositio, from appositum, past participle of apponere (“to put near”).
Noun
apposition (countable and uncountable, plural appositions)
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In the phrase "my friend Alice" the name "Alice" is in apposition to "my friend". |
- (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.
- The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
- The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
- A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
- In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
- (rhetoric) Appositio
- A public disputation by scholars.
- (Britain) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.
Synonyms
- (grammar): parathesis
Translations
grammatical construction
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relationship in such construction
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biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall
rhetoric: appositio — see appositio
Finnish
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