Adjacent Words

Collocate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COLLOCATE, v.t. To set or place; to set; to station.
COLLOCATE, a. Set; placed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: have a strong tendency to occur side by side; "The words 'new' and 'world' collocate"
2: group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side [syn: collocate, lump, chunk]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-cated; -cating) Etymology: Latin collocatus, past participle of collocare, from com- + locare to place, from locus place — more at stall Date: 1513 transitive verb to set or arrange in a place or position; especially to set side by side intransitive verb to occur in conjunction with something

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 place together or side by side. 2 arrange; set in a particular place. 3 (often foll. by with) Linguistics juxtapose (a word etc.) with another. Derivatives: collocation n. Etymology: L collocare collocat- (as COM-, locare to place)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Collocate Col"lo*cate, a. [L. collocatus, p. p. of collocare. See Couch.] Set; placed. [Obs.] --Bacon.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Collocate Col"lo*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collocated; p. pr. & vb. n. Collocating.] To set or place; to set; to station.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(collocated) 1. In linguistics, a collocate of a particular word is another word which often occurs with that word. (TECHNICAL) N-COUNT 2. In linguistics, if one word collocates with another, they often occur together. (TECHNICAL) 'Detached' collocates with 'house'. V-RECIP: V with n, also pl-n V

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. (Rare.) Place, set, dispose, arrange.