Unscramble

c 3 o 1 l 1 l 1 o 1 c 3 a 1 t 1 i 1 o 1 n 1

11 letters · 15 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a grouping of words in a sentence

noun the act of positioning close together (or side by side)

originLearned borrowing from Latin collocātiō (“a putting together”). By surface analysis, col- (“together”) + location. The technical sense in linguistics was established in 1951, although it may actually be earlier. First attested in 1605.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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