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View synonyms for reduplication
reduplication
[ ri-doo-pli-key-shuhn, -dyoo- ]
noun
- the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- something resulting from reduplicating.
- Grammar.
- reduplicating as a grammatical pattern.
- the added element in a reduplicated form.
- a form containing a reduplicated element.
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Other Words From
- self-re·dupli·cation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of reduplication1
First recorded in 1580–90, reduplication is from the Late Latin word reduplicātiōn- (stem of reduplicātiō ). See reduplicate, -ion
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Example Sentences
And this reduplication of the grievous mistake he had made on the field of Ligny was absolutely fatal.
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The most characteristic examples of reduplication are such as repeat only part of the radical element.
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What the four-post bedstead but a reduplication of the original type, a table placed on a table, the upper one being laid open?
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Ogus, and with the reduplication Ogugus, was the same as Ogyges, in whose time the flood was supposed to have happened.
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Valve as in type, but with internal divisions as though in the process of reduplication.
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