apposition

apposition is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of adding; application; accretion. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of adding; application; accretion.
2. noun. The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. the act of positioning close together (or side by side)

   "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"

   Synonyms: collocation, juxtaposition

5. noun. (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material
6. noun. a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows

   "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"

Synonyms

collocation, juxtaposition

Common word forms

appositions, appositional

Words from these letters

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