| 单词 | back formation |
| 释义 | back formationnoun Linguistics.the analogical creation of one word from another word that appears to be a derived or inflected form of the first by dropping the apparent affix or by modification. a word so formed, as typewrite from typewriter. Origin of back formationFirst recorded in 1885–90 Words nearby back formationbackflip, back float, backflow, back focus, back foot, back formation, back forty, back four, backgammon, back gear, back green Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for back formationback formation nounthe invention of a new word on the assumption that a familiar word is derived from it. The verbs edit and burgle were so created from editor and burglar a word formed by this process Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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