Apposition

Quick meaning: Apposition is a noun meaning (grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.

Meaning

(grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

Word Forms

• appositions

Synonyms for apposition

Depending on context, synonyms include parathesis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include parallelism, juxtapositioning, adjunctive, conjunct, conjugate, apokoinou.

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