apposition
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Is apposition a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (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.Examples: "The apposition in the title has been read as indicating that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is equivalent to ‘colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases’."Synonyms: parathesiscountableuncountable
2. (grammar) The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.countableuncountable
3. (biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.countableuncountable
4. (rhetoric) Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.countablerhetoricuncountable
5. (UK) A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.UKcountableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary