collocant

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word collocant. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word collocant, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say collocant in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word collocant you have here. The definition of the word collocant will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofcollocant, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Noun

collocant (plural collocants)

  1. A word which collocates with another.
    • 1991, Journal de linguistique arabe:
      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 [] )
    • 2003, D. J. Allerton, Stretched Verb Constructions in English, Routledge, →ISBN, page 248:
      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 ...
    • 2001, Dirasat: Human and social sciences:
      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.
    • 2018, Richard J. Whitt, Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 45:
      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.

Latin

Alternative forms

Verb

collocant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of collocō