Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

collocate

/ˈkɑləkeɪt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.11 in modern English

Syllables: col-lo-cate
IPA: /ˈkɑləkeɪt/

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

(said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.

verb

To arrange or occur side by side.

verb

To set or place or station in the same place as something else.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

noun

A component word of a collocation; a word that collocates with another.

adj

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles"
"that S. Peter will have transferred from his episcopate of Antioch to Rome, and in Rome the Church with the episcopate, the primacy likewise itself, and himself the rock of faith and the Church to have been constituted and collocated"
"A list of collocations to accompany the SVL words providing their important lexico-grammatical associations could therefore be a useful supplementary resource. Thus, we took an extra step not present in previously developed academic wordlists and created lists of each word's discipline-specific collocates."
"of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: collocatum

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈkɑləkeɪt/
British English: /ˈkɒləkeɪt/

Usage

Inflected Forms

collocates (present, singular) collocating (participle, present) collocated (participle, past) collocated (past) collocates (plural)

Derived Forms

collocability collocatable uncollocated

Synonyms

co-locate lump chunk

Questions

How do you pronounce collocate?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɑləkeɪt/.
What does collocate mean?: (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
Where does collocate come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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