noun (linguistics)
1 [C] a combination of words in a language, that happens very often and more frequently than would happen by chance:
'Resounding success' and 'crying shame' are English collocations.
2 [U] the fact of two or more words often being used together, in a way that happens more frequently than would happen by chance:
Advanced students need to be aware of the importance of collocation.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for collocation is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does collocation appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — collocation appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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