Collocate

Quick meaning: Collocate is a verb meaning To arrange or occur side by side.

Meaning

To arrange or occur side by side.

More Meanings

1. (linguistics) A component word of a collocation; a word that collocates with another.
2. (linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To set or place or station in the same place as something else.
4. (obsolete) Set; placed.

Example Sentences

to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles

of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate

that S. Peter will have transferred from his episcopate of Antioch to Rome, and in Rome the Church with the episcopate, the primacy likewise itself, and himself the rock of faith and the Church to have been constituted and collocated

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 collocates.

Word Forms

• collocates
• collocating
• collocated

Synonyms for collocate

Depending on context, synonyms include co-locate, lump, chunk.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chunk, lump, colocate, collocalize, colocalise, co-locate.

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