Definition of "collocate"

collocate

/ˈkɒləkeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present collocates, present participle collocating, simple past and past participle collocated
1. (linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.
2. To arrange or occur side by side.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To set or place; to station.
  Quotations
  to marſhall and collocate in order his battayles
  1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke
noun
plural collocates
1. (linguistics) A component word of a collocation; a word that collocates with another.
  Quotations
  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.
  2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, page 109
adjective
not comparable
1. (obsolete) Set; placed.
  Quotations
  of that creature you must take the parts wherein that virtue chiefly is collocate
  1631, Francis [Bacon], “X. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]

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