## Meanings
1. A pair or group of words that are often used together and sound natural to native speakers.
2. The act of placing things, especially words, close together.

## Examples
- "Heavy rain" is a common collocation in English.
- The collocation of these two ideas in one sentence was confusing.

## Derived Forms
- collocability
- collocate
- collocational
- miscollocation

## Related Forms
- actant
- co-locating
- co-location
- collation
- collocate
- collocative
- collocator
- compound
- idiom
- lexicalization
- phrase

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: collocātiō

## Etymology
Learned 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.

## AI Etymology
collocation is a noun. It is a learned 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. Historical forms in the chain include collocātiō (Latin). Current senses include a pair or group of words that are often used together and sound natural to native speakers and the act of placing things, especially words, close together. Derived forms include collocability, collocate, collocational, and miscollocation. Related words include actant, co-locating, co-location, and collation.

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