[れんご, rengo] (n) compound word; phrase; collocation[Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Collocation \Col`lo*ca"tion\, n. [L. collocatio.]
1. The act of placing; the state of being placed with
something else; disposition in place; arrangement.
[1913 Webster]
The choice and collocation of words. --Sir W.
Jones.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Linguistics) a combination of related words within a
sentence that occurs more frequently than would be
predicted in a random arrangement of words; a combination
of words that occurs with sufficient frequency to be
recongizable as a common combination, especially a pair of
words that occur adjacent to each other. Also called
{stable collocation}. Combinations of words having
intervening words between them, such as verb and object
pairs, may also be collocations.
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
collocation
n 1: a grouping of words in a sentence
2: the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it
is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
[syn: {juxtaposition}, {apposition}, {collocation}]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
