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Noun Concept

Categories: 1 (number), Corpus linguistics, Nonce words, Articles with short description, Word coinage

nonce word hapax legomenon nonce Apax legomenon dis legomena

A word with a special meaning used for a special occasion WordNet 3.0

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A word with a special meaning used for a special occasion WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In corpus linguistics, a hapax legomenon is a word or an expression that occurs only once within a context, either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. Wikipedia

In linguistics, a nonce word—also called an occasionalism—is any word, or any sequence of sounds or letters, created for a single occasion or utterance but not otherwise understood or recognized as a word within a given language. Wikipedia

A word used to meet a need that is not expected to recur Wikipedia Disambiguation

Word that occurs only once in a language's written record, an author's corpus, or a text Wikidata

Word or linguistic form in a given language attested only once in a single text or by a single author. OmegaWiki

A word that is used only once to fill a lexical gap in a certain context. OmegaWiki

A word occurring only once in a given corpus. Wiktionary

Word occurring only once. Wiktionary (translation)

A nonce word. Wiktionary

A word invented for the occasion. Wiktionary

Word invented for the occasion. Wiktionary (translation)

I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors. Wiktionary

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