Usually means: Insertion of a word between.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. tmesis: Merriam-Webster
  2. tmesis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tmesis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tmesis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tmesis: Wordnik
  6. tmesis: Wiktionary
  7. tmesis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. tmesis: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. tmesis: Dictionary.com
  10. tmesis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Tmesis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Tmesis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. tmesis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Tmesis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. tmesis: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. tmesis: FreeDictionary.org
  17. tmesis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. tmesis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Tmesis: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  3. TMESIS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tmesis: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tmesis: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tmesis)

▸ noun:  (prosody) The insertion of one or more words between the components of a compound word.

Similar:
diacope, merismus, composition, antimetathesis, syndesis, synecphonesis, syntagmeme, synizesis, Metaphone, syntagm, more...

Opposite:
synchysis
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Similar:
diacope, merismus, composition, antimetathesis, syndesis, synecphonesis, syntagmeme, synizesis, Metaphone, syntagm, more...

Opposite:
synchysis



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