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Collocation

noun

A grouping of words in a sentence.

The act of positioning close together (or side by side). Synonyms: apposition, juxtaposition.

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Etymology of 'Collocation'

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"Collocation" Quotes from Famous Books

... applicable to his own art. On a single word, on a subtle collocation, on a slight touch depend often his finest effects: "the little less" reduces him to mediocrity, "the little more" and he is with the masters. To no poetry would the application of Goethe's test be, as a rule, more fatal—that the real poetic quality in poetry is that which remains ...

— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson

Words linked to "Collocation" : location, emplacement, position, language unit, placement, linguistic unit, collocate, locating, positioning, tessellation