The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified),with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying themeaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thusadded; as, L. tetuli; poposci.

]]>https://definedictionarymeaning.com/topic/10524/reduplicationRSS for NodeThu, 09 Jul 2026 02:20:13 GMTTue, 21 Mar 2017 19:29:05 GMT60A linguistic term for repeating a word twice. Generally emphasizes the duplicated word, but American slang uses it to indicate that the word is being used in its truest or most specialized sense.

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