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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PORTMANTEAU WORD

From the idea that two meanings are packed into one word.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PORTMANTEAU WORD

portmanteau word play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PORTMANTEAU WORD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Portmanteau word is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PORTMANTEAU WORD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

portmanteau word

Portmanteau

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a combination of two words or morphemes, and their definitions, into one new word. The word comes from the English portmanteau luggage, itself derived from the French porter and manteau, which is a false friend of the French compound word porte-manteau meaning coat rack. A portmanteau word fuses both the sounds and the meanings of its components, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel. In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph which represents two or more morphemes.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PORTMANTEAU WORD

portlast
portless
portlier
portliest
portliness
portly
portman
portmanteau
portmanteaux
portmantle
portmantua
Portnet
Porto
Porto Alegre
Porto Novo
Porto Rican
Porto Rico
Porto Velho
portobello

WORDS THAT END LIKE PORTMANTEAU WORD

at a word
buzz word
code word
content word
dirty word
entry word
four-letter word
full word
household word
in a word
keyword
mum´s the word
of one´s word
operative word
printed word
reserved word
root word
the last word
the word
word for word
written word

Synonyms and antonyms of portmanteau word in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «portmanteau word» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PORTMANTEAU WORD

Find out the translation of portmanteau word to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of portmanteau word from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «portmanteau word» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

混成词
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

baúl palabra
570 millions of speakers

English

portmanteau word
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सूटकेस शब्द
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

كلمة حقيبة سفر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

чемодан слово
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

palavra -valise
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পোর্টম্যানটিউ শব্দ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

valise mot
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perkataan portmanteau
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kofferwort
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

かばん語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

합성어 단어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Portmanteau word
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

từ ghép
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துறைமுக வார்த்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोर्टमँटेए शब्द
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Portmanteau kelime
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

portmanteau word
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kontaminacja słowo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

валізу слово
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

geamantan cuvânt
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βαλίτσα λέξη
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

valies woord
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

kappsäck ord
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

teleskopord ord
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of portmanteau word

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PORTMANTEAU WORD»

The term «portmanteau word» is normally little used and occupies the 127.809 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PORTMANTEAU WORD» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about portmanteau word

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORTMANTEAU WORD»

Discover the use of portmanteau word in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to portmanteau word and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Guide for Using The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 in the ...
Highlight (or underline) the portmanteau word in each. On the lines provided, write the two words you believe the author combined. ______ + ______ 1. “He noticed that when I talked to people I squinched my lazy eye kind of shut or that I' d ...
Debra J. Housel, 2002
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Cognitive Perspectives on Word Formation
Designer words With visibility and mapping as our chief concerns, we confine our computational exploration to one particular kind of designer word - the portmanteau word (Deleuze 1990: 42). As first coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the ...
Alexander Onysko, Sascha Michel, 2010
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Logique Du Sens
contraction within a single series (y'reince) is not a portmanteau word. A further example may be found in the famous "Jabberwocky," where a great number of words sketch out a fantastic zoology but do not necessarily form portmanteau ...
Gilles Deleuze, Constantin V. Boundas, 1990
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Blake's Word Bank: A Handy Book of Graded Word Lists. Upper ...
Portmanteau Words Note: A portmanteau word is a word made by telescoping or blending two other words, for example automatic + bank -» autobank. bookmobile - breathalyser brunch -» heliport -> hi-fi - Medicare -» moped -» motel ...
Peter Clutterbuck, 2000
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Improve Your Word Power
A portmanteau word is one that blends the sounds and combines the meanings of two others. The word is derived from the French portmanteau, combined from porter ('to carry') plus manteau ('mantle'). While the word portmanteau originated  ...
Clifford Sawhney, 2011
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Derrida and Joyce: Texts and Contexts
Were meaning to continue to reside within the portmanteau, it would simply remain another word, ready for its dictionary entry, while, as Attridge himself points out, “[t]he portmanteau word is a monster, a word that is not a word” (196). That the ...
Andrew J. Mitchell, Sam Slote, 2013
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The Last Word: Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue
'Smirting' is a portmanteau word, formed by packing parts of two words together to create another, combining the sense of each. 'Smirting' is a first cousin of 'smog ' (smoke + fog). The notion of a portmanteau word is comparatively new.
Ben Macintyre, 2011
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Fresh Starts and Fast Finishes, Grades 3 - 5: High-Interest ...
Explain that a portmanteau word is the result of blending two or more words to create a new and unique word. Tell students that these are not compound words. 2. On chart paper, write the portmanteau words shown below. (Do not write the ...
Mary Rosenberg, 2008
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A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z
Portmanteau Word that trail along the floor' (T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Pru- frock,' ll. 101-2). R4: We speak of polysyndeton in the case of co-ordinating conjunctions, but it seems also to exist in that of subordinating conjunctions, and  ...
Bernard Marie Dupriez, Albert W. Halsall, 1991
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Poetry and Cosmogony: Science in the Writing of Queneau and ...
The point of the foregoing taxonomy is to show that the portmanteau word is not a single, simple phenomenon. There are various ways of packing two words together: from simple adjunction to a scrambling of the common phonemes. Thus the ...
Chris Andrews, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORTMANTEAU WORD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term portmanteau word is used in the context of the following news items.
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All About Relative Pronouns and Portmanteau Words
The word 'infomercial' is a portmanteau word. A portmanteau is 'a travelling case with two halves joined by a hinge'. Creating a portmanteau ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
2
Drawing District Lines
When one politically self-serving district he drew was said to resemble a salamander, a portmanteau word was born. (The governor's name is ... «Commentary Magazine, Jul 15»
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From Greferendum to Grexit: a crisis buzzwords glossary
A portmanteau word made by combining the words "Greece" and "exit". The term was reputedly first used in a paper by Citigroup (NYSE: C ... «Yahoo News UK, Jun 15»
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Greferendum to Grexit: Your guide to key phrases on Greece crisis
A portmanteau word made by combining the words "Greece" and "exit". The term was reputedly first used in a paper by Citigroup economists ... «Hindustan Times, Jun 15»
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Jude Law, Elijah Wood appear in bizarre online campaign
That's quite the most dire portmanteau word I've seen since 'edutainment'. #DontMancriminate. — Matthew Cocker (@BrandyTartlet) June 26, ... «Globalnews.ca, Jun 15»
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Turns out 'twerking' dates back almost 200 years
It is believed twerk is a portmanteau word of 'twist' and 'jerk', according to the dictionary, but other origins could be from the word work – 'to work it' – evolving ... «Stylist Magazine, Jun 15»
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US: 5 Facts About the Juneteenth Holiday
Juneteenth - a portmanteau word for June and nineteenth - is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the U.S. It ... «teleSUR English, Jun 15»
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Physicist Awarded Grant to Study Physical Cell Biology
The conference was part of a two-year Scialog program titled “Molecules Come to Life.” Scialog—a portmanteau word blending “science” and ... «Syracuse University News, Jun 15»
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A quiz on friends and allies
9 Which portmanteau word was coined by a sister of well-known author Jessica Mitford and came into its own when Samantha and Charlotte ... «Hindu Business Line, Jun 15»
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Rosamund Urwin: The Pill is a great liberator — but it's not risk-free
That's the portmanteau word for adults who relay every detail of their children's lives through social media, so we all know that Jemimah got a ... «Evening Standard, May 15»

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