apposition

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌæpəˈzɪʃn̩/

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apposition (countable and uncountable, plural appositions)

1. (grammar) 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.

   Synonym: parathesis

   • 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 65:

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

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

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apposition

1. genitive singular of appositio

From Latin appositiō.

• IPA^(key): /a.po.zi.sjɔ̃/

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apposition f (plural appositions)

1. apposition

• apposer

• “apposition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.