We found 18 dictionaries that include the word suppletion:

General dictionaries General (14 matching dictionaries)

  1. suppletion: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
  2. suppletion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
  3. suppletion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. suppletion: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  5. suppletion: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. suppletion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. suppletion: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  8. suppletion: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  9. Suppletion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  10. suppletion: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
  11. suppletion: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
  12. suppletion: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
  13. suppletion: Luciferous Logolepsy [home, info]
  14. suppletion: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionariesArt

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  1. suppletion: Linguistic Glossary [home, info]
  2. Suppletion: Lexicon of Linguistics [home, info]

Business dictionariesBusiness

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  1. suppletion: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionariesMiscellaneous

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  1. suppletion: Wordcraft Dictionary [home, info]

(Note: See suppletive as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (suppletion)
▸ noun:  The supplying of something lacking.
▸ noun:  (linguistics, grammar) The use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking, e.g. using “to be able” as the infinitive of “can”, or “better” as the comparative of “good”, or “went” as the simple past of “go”.
▸ noun:  (grammar) More loosely, the use of unrelated (or distantly related) words for semantically related words which may not share the same lexical category, such as father/paternal or cow/bovine, normally referred to as collateral adjectives. supplyment, supplial, supplantation, supplementation, provisionment, supersession, plenishment, oppletion, superseding, supply, more...
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