Meaning & use
apposition
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A grammatical construction in which two noun phrases are placed side by side, with one identifying or explaining the other.
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In the sentence "my friend Sarah," the noun "Sarah" is in apposition to "my friend."
The editor flagged an awkward apposition that made the sentence hard to parse.
A note on using this word
A grammar term also used in anatomy and dentistry for two surfaces placed close together; the linguistic sense is the more common one in general usage.
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