Explore Pluricentric through 4 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pluricentric in a sentence
Pluricentric meaning
- Having more than one center; multicentric.
- (of a language) Having several interacting codified standard forms, often corresponding to different countries.
Using Pluricentric
- The main meaning on this page is: Having more than one center; multicentric. | (of a language) Having several interacting codified standard forms, often corresponding to different countries.
- In the example corpus, pluricentric often appears in combinations such as: pluricentric language, the pluricentric.
Context around Pluricentric
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pluricentric
- In this selection, "pluricentric" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 17 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, language, serbo and standard stand out and add context to how "pluricentric" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include is a pluricentric language with and of a pluricentric language. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pluricentric" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pluricentric
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It is a pluricentric language with four citation mutually intelligible standard varieties. (12 words)
The varieties of standard German refer to the different local varieties of the pluricentric standard German. (16 words)
Consequently, its autonomy could not have resulted from a conscious distancing of a variant of a pluricentric language. (18 words)
The pluricentric Serbo-Croatian standard language and all four contemporary standard variants are based on the Eastern Herzegovinian subdialect of Neo-Shtokavian. (22 words)
Consequently, its autonomy could not have resulted from a conscious distancing of a variant of a pluricentric language. (18 words)
The varieties of standard German refer to the different local varieties of the pluricentric standard German. (16 words)
Example sentences (4)
Consequently, its autonomy could not have resulted from a conscious distancing of a variant of a pluricentric language.
It is a pluricentric language with four citation mutually intelligible standard varieties.
The pluricentric Serbo-Croatian standard language and all four contemporary standard variants are based on the Eastern Herzegovinian subdialect of Neo-Shtokavian.
The varieties of standard German refer to the different local varieties of the pluricentric standard German.
Common combinations with pluricentric
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: