reduplication
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.
Origin of reduplication
1Other words from reduplication
- self-re·du·pli·ca·tion, noun
Words Nearby reduplication
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How to use reduplication in a sentence
And this reduplication of the grievous mistake he had made on the field of Ligny was absolutely fatal.
Battles of English History | H. B. (Hereford Brooke) GeorgeThe most characteristic examples of reduplication are such as repeat only part of the radical element.
Language | Edward SapirWhat the four-post bedstead but a reduplication of the original type, a table placed on a table, the upper one being laid open?
Ogus, and with the reduplication Ogugus, was the same as Ogyges, in whose time the flood was supposed to have happened.
Valve as in type, but with internal divisions as though in the process of reduplication.
The Diatomaceae of Philadelphia and Vicinity | Charles Sumner Boyer
British Dictionary definitions for reduplication
/ (rɪˌdjuːplɪˈkeɪʃən) /
the process or an instance of redoubling
the state, condition, or quality of being redoubled
a thing that has been redoubled
repetition of a sound or syllable in a word, as in the formation of the Latin perfect tetigi from tangere "touch"
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