nonce word

nonce word
noun
a word with a special meaning used for a special occasion
• Syn: ↑hapax legomenon
• Hypernyms: ↑word

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noun
: a word (as ringday in “four girls I know have become engaged today: this must be ringday”) coined and used apparently to suit one particular occasion sometimes independently by different writers or speakers but not adopted into use generally

Coleridge coined mammonolatry in 1820 as a nonce word

I still think I heard it, though so seldom that it had more or less the air of a nonce word — S.T.Byington

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a word coined and used only for a particular occasion. Cf. neologism (def. 1).
[1880-85]

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nonce word UK [ˈnɒns ˌwɜː(r)d] US [ˈnɑns ˌwɜrd] noun [countable] [singular nonce word plural nonce words]
a word that someone invents for a particular purpose or occasion
Thesaurus: types of wordhyponym

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nonce word,
a word formed and used for a single occasion. Examples: newspaporialist = a journalist, planeticose = given to wandering, observist = a person who makes observation his business.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • Nonce word — Nonce Nonce (n[o^]ns), n. [For the nonce, OE. for the nones, a corruption of for then ones, where n. in then is a relic of AS. m in [eth]am, dat. of the article and demonstrative pronoun, E. the. See {For}, {Once}, and {The}.] The one or single… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • nonce-word — (n.) word coined for a special occasion, 1922, from NONCE (Cf. nonce) + WORD (Cf. word) (n.) …   Etymology dictionary

  • nonce word — nonce ,word noun count a word that someone invents for a particular purpose or occasion …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • nonce word — nonce′ word n. ling. a word coined and used only for a particular occasion • Etymology: 1880–85 …   From formal English to slang

  • nonce word — n. a word coined and used for a single or particular occasion, or time being …   English World dictionary

  • Nonce word — For other uses of the word, see Nonce. A nonce word is a word used only for the nonce to meet a need that is not expected to recur. Quark, for example, was formerly a nonce word in English, appearing only in James Joyce s Finnegans Wake. Murray… …   Wikipedia

  • nonce word — UK [ˈnɒns ˌwɜː(r)d] / US [ˈnɑns ˌwɜrd] noun [countable] Word forms nonce word : singular nonce word plural nonce words a word that someone invents for a particular purpose or occasion …   English dictionary

  • nonce word — word invented and used only for one specific occasion …   English contemporary dictionary

  • nonce word — a word coined and used only for a particular occasion. Cf. neologism (def. 1). [1880 85] * * * ▪ literature       a word coined and used apparently to suit one particular occasion. Nonce words are sometimes used independently by different writers …   Universalium

  • nonce word — noun A word invented for the occasion …   Wiktionary

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