- portmanteau word: A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always...
- Portmanteau words may belong to nouns, adjectives or verbs. Now, let’s have a look at some examples of such words in each of these categories.
- portmanteau word in American English. a coined word that is a combination of two other words in form and meaning; blend (Ex.: smog, from smoke and fog).
- Portmanteau word "word blending the sound of two different words" (1882) was coined by "Lewis Carroll" (Charles L. Dodgson, 1832-1898)...
- There are many different ways of reducing your word count in your writing. And here’s the best-kept one, which no one has told you about: using portmanteau words.
- Trying to find another word for portmanteau-word in English? Our thesaurus contains synonyms of portmanteau-word in 7 different contexts.
- From a Russian portmanteau word that's derived from source words that are directly comparable to their English equivalents. alegar. ale, vinnegar.
- A portmanteau word is a type of compound word in which some sounds (phonemes) are blended rather than combined whole.
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- "`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'"; "`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'"; "`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau".