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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -back-formations-, *back-formations*, back-formation
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Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
back-formations
back-formation

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
back-formation
back-formations

WordNet (3.0)
back-formation(n) a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
back-formation

n. (Linguistics) 1. a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it, such as emote from emotion. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. the process of inventing a back-formation{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

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