reduplication

[ ri-doo-pli-key-shuhn, -dyoo- ]

noun

1. the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
2. something resulting from reduplicating.
3. Grammar.
   1. reduplicating as a grammatical pattern.
   2. the added element in a reduplicated form.
   3. a form containing a reduplicated element.

Other Words From

• self-re·dupli·cation noun

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

Example Sentences

Longhand has been in a long retreat, as other forms of technology have created opportunities to create text more quickly, more uniformly, more legibly and with greater possibilities for reduplication.

From Forbes

The proper name for word word is “contrastive focus reduplication,” but word word is leaving it in the dust and now appears in the Oxford Companion to the English Language.

From Time

Moreover, the second snake appears to be due to reduplication.

From Project Gutenberg

The subsequent milk bath seems to show a conflict between the conclusions of the two subsidiary motives—the end of The Poison Maiden being release from something like demonic possession, and that of The Water of Life in this form being release from a spell—though perhaps the bath is only a reduplication of the purifying process.

From Project Gutenberg

It was some moments before our representative was willing to obey this summons: the Board of Directors were thrown into a panic, and with great expedition got out of the back window into the yard, and made their escape—thus leaving the indomitable and unflinching President of the bank, a man of lion heart, alone in the apartment; while the yells and shouts of the multitude were ringing in his ears with awful reduplication.

From Project Gutenberg