mə noun Grammar, Rhetoric.
the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.
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| —n | |
| a figure of speech in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although appropriate to only one of them or making a different sense with each, as in the sentence Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave (Charles Dickens) | |
| [C16: via Latin from Greek: a yoking, from zeugnunai to yoke] | |
| zeugmatic | |
| —adj | |
| zeug'matically | |
| —adv | |
| zeugma (ˈzjuːɡmə) | |
| —n | |
| a figure of speech in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although appropriate to only one of them or making a different sense with each, as in the sentence Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave (Charles Dickens) | |
| [C16: via Latin from Greek: a yoking, from zeugnunai to yoke] | |
| zeugmatic | |
| —adj | |
| zeug'matically | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
zeugma
1580s, "a single word (usually a verb or adj.) made to refer to two or more words in a sentence," from Gk., lit. "a yoking," from zeugnynai "to yoke" (see jugular).
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