[no obj.](Linguistics)(of a word) be habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance (语言学)(词)(习惯上)与…搭配,与…组合(使用),与…连用 ‘maiden’ collocates with ‘voyage’. maiden习惯上可与voyage搭配。
[with obj.](rare)place side by side or in a particular relation (罕)并列放置,使并列;配置 [as adj.collocated]McAndrew was a collocated facility with Argentia Naval Station. 麦克安德鲁是配合阿真舍海军基地的军事设施。
noun
(Linguistics)a word that is habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance (语言学)(习惯)搭配词;连用词 collocates for the word ‘mortgage’ include ‘lend’ and ‘property’. 可以和mortgage 连用的词包括lend 和property。
语源
early 16th cent. (in sense 2): from Latin collocat- 'placed together', from the verb collocare, from col- 'together' + locare 'to place'. Sense 1 dates from the 1950s