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apposition

  • /ˌæpəˈzɪʃn̩/

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From Middle English apposicioun, from Middle French apposition, from Latin appositiō, action noun of appōnere (“to put near”).

noun appositions

  1. countable, uncountable 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 apposition in the title has been read as indicating that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is equivalent to ‘colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases’.

    Similar: parathesis

  2. countable, uncountable The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
  3. countable, uncountable The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
  4. countable, uncountable A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
  5. countable, uncountable The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
  6. countable, rhetoric, uncountable Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
  7. countable, uncountable A public disputation by scholars.
  8. UK, countable, uncountable A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.

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noun grammatical construction

Españolaposición
한국어동격 donggyeok
日本語同格 dōkaku
中文同位語 /同位语 tóngwèiyǔ
Portuguêsaposição, aposto
Françaisapposition
DeutschApposition, Beisatz, Beifügung
Italianoapposizione
Ελληνικάπαράθεση paráthesi
Românăapoziție
Русскийприложе́ние priložénije
العربيةبدل badal

noun quality of being side by side

Portuguêsaposição

noun placing of two things side by side

Portuguêsaposição

noun biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall

Portuguêsaposição
DeutschApposition

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@misc{apposition_2026,
  title = {apposition},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/apposition},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}