corollary

C2 Topic:Word Formation & Derivatives

Also spelled corrollaries and corrollary

US /kɒˈɹɒləɹi/ See IPA manual

Freq #81950

Meanings

1

noun
a practical consequence that follows naturally

Blind jealousy is a frequent corollary of passionate love.
2

noun
An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.

Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.
3

noun
A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.

We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary, we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.

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Word family

Derived forms corollarialcorollarilysubcorollary

Etymology

From Middle English, from Late Latin corōllārium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”), from corōlla (“small garland”), diminutive of corōna (“crown”).

Topics

Word Formation & Derivatives General Vocabulary

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# corollary

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /kɒˈɹɒləɹi/
**Frequency rank:** 81950

## Meanings
1. a practical consequence that follows naturally
2. An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
3. A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.

## Examples
- Blind jealousy is a frequent corollary of passionate love.
- Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.
- We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary, we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.

## Derived Forms
- corollarial
- corollarily
- subcorollary

## Etymology
From Middle English, from Late Latin corōllārium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”), from corōlla (“small garland”), diminutive of corōna (“crown”).

## Topics
- Word Formation & Derivatives
- General Vocabulary

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