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Meaning of 'apposition' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Apposition [ n.]
- The act of adding; application; accretion.
- The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
- The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.

Meaning of 'apposition' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . apposition [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
Example in sentence:
  • it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors
Meaning (2):
- a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows
Example in sentence:
  • `Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition

Nearby Words:

appair appalachian appall appalled appalling appallment appanage appanagist apparaillyng apparatus

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