apposition
The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK
(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.
Origin: From , from , from , past participle of to put near. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK
(grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK
The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
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