collocate

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collocate

/ˈkɒləkeɪt/ UK
/ˈkɑləkeɪt/ Atlantic Canada, US
/ˈkɒləkeɪt/ Boston, Canada, Maine
/ˈkɔləkæɪt/ Australia
/ˈkɒləkət/ UK
/ˈkɑləkət/ Atlantic Canada, US
/ˈkɒləkət/ Boston, Canada, Maine
/ˈkɔləkət/ Australia

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

verb collocates · collocating · collocated

(said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
To arrange or occur side by side.
Similar: co-locate
obsolete, transitive To set or place or station in the same place as something else. to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles
Similar: co-locate

noun collocates

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

adjective

not comparable, obsolete Set; placed. of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate

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verb linguistics: to be often used together

Español	coaparecer, coaparir, coaparatar
हिन्दी	सहसंबंध करना sahsambandh karnā
Русский	сочета́ться sočetátʹsja

verb arrange side by side

हिन्दी	संस्थिति करना sansthiti karnā
Deutsch	zusammentragen, unterbringen, angliedern, zusammenstellen, vergesellschaften, verbinden

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@misc{collocate_2026,
  title = {collocate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/collocate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}