collocant
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A word which collocates with another.
Example Sentences
- "Such verbs may come to encapsulate the meaning of the collocant, in which case the body-part may be omitted. The degree to which this occurs varies : 'ațraqa (=he bowed his head) , but not *šammara (he bared […])"
- "It seems natural to assume that a deviant collocation should be corrected by changing the collocant rather than the base word, but some of the non-native speaker examples cited by Howarth (1998: 177–85) should probably be corrected ..."
- "In (13), for example, the learners failed to recognize the collocant baked and compensated for that with another verb (cooked / produced) which share with baked the feature of making food on fire / heat."
- "Annotated screenshot of the web-based DiaCollo user interface displaying a dynamic tag-cloud visualization of the 10 best common noun collocates per 50- year epoch for the collocant Revolution over the interval 1600–1899."