Meaning

3 senses
  1. (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.

    сочета́тьсяsočetátʹsja

  2. To arrange or occur side by side.

    zusammentragen, unterbringen, angliedern

    have a strong tendency to occur side by side

  3. (obsolete, transitive)To set or place or station in the same place as something else.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. The noun "rain" doesn't collocate with the adjective "busy."

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
linguistics: to be often used together:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
arrange side by side:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.

Borrowed from Latin collocatum, supine of collocō. Doublet of couch.

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Forms

collocates, collocating, collocated, collocated
Base formcollocate · to collocate
3rd person singularcollocates
Present participlecollocating
Past simplecollocated
Past participlecollocated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycollocate
he, she, itcollocates

Past simpleLesson

all personscollocated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave collocated
he, she, ithas collocated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill collocate

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side:lumpchunk

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
collocate — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto