"affection" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

affection sustantivo

affection + verbo
Kolokacji: 3
Affection goes • affection grows • affection develops
verbo + affection
Kolokacji: 23
show affection • feel affection • win one's affection • express affection • return one's affection • ...
adjetivo + affection
Kolokacji: 61
great affection • deep affection • genuine affection • real affection • mutual affection • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 14
(6) obvious, evident, palpable
Kolokacji: 3
1. maternal affection = matczyna sympatia maternal affection
2. paternal affection = ojcowska sympatia paternal affection
3. filial affection = synowska sympatia filial affection
4. fatherly affection = ojcowska sympatia fatherly affection
  • He is known for his fatherly affection toward his proteges.
  • How innocently had she believed in the fatherly affection of the squire!
  • He smiled, the picture of fatherly affection.
  • He glanced at his travelling companion with fatherly affection.
  • His work focused often on what he found vulgar or ridiculous about Cuban life, but was written with a fatherly affection.
  • Jones meets a little girl in a park who he shows a fatherly affection for, however her existence is eerie.
  • Still, he felt a certain fatherly affection for her.
  • The old seaman Dansker, with fatherly affection, even calls him "baby."
  • Try to substitute fatherly affection and reason for the anger of an exhausted, spent man- It was too late.
  • Stromlo patted her shoulder with a not quite fatherly affection.
5. parental affection = rodzicielska sympatia parental affection
6. motherly affection = macierzyńska sympatia motherly affection
(10) sisterly, brotherly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) lifelong, lasting, enduring
Kolokacji: 3
(12) undying, boundless
Kolokacji: 2
(13) nostalgic, wistful
Kolokacji: 2
(14) grudging, tolerant
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + affection
Kolokacji: 13
with affection • of affection • for one's affections • in affection • to affection • ...

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