anaphornoun [ C ]
/ˈæn.ə.fɔːr//ˈæn.ə.fɔːr/specializeda word that refers to a word used earlier in a sentence and replaces it, for example the word "it" in the sentence "Joe dropped a glass and it broke."
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- affricate
- allophone
- anaphora
- anaphoric
- appropriacy
- double entendre
- ellipsis
- idiomatic
- irregular
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- parallelism
- philology
- portmanteau word
- prosody
- semiotics
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