"precious" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

precious adjetivo

precious + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 130
precious metal • precious stone • precious thing • precious time • precious resource • precious moment • precious second • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 26
(5) resource, asset
Kolokacji: 2
(8) cargo, burden
Kolokacji: 2
(11) water, fluid, liquid, food
Kolokacji: 4
(12) memory, knowledge
Kolokacji: 2
1. precious book = cenna książka precious book
2. precious wood = cenne drzewo precious wood
3. precious volume = cenna pojemność precious volume
  • She eyed the notebook he held, weighing her chances of snatching back the precious volume.
  • He defaces, with a pen, the passages, in some precious volume, which do not meet his idea of moral propriety.
  • She gave the precious volume to Mandy almost indifferently.
  • He'd needed money, of course, and this had seemed a good way to get it without parting with his precious volumes.
  • Before bookcases were thought of, the precious volumes were stacked flat in lidded chests.
  • At his feet, sliielded from the wind by his boots, were Girard's three precious volumes.
  • It would bring him straight to my most precious volumes!
  • Turning to Hakim, Monak ordered the servant to place the precious volume under lock and key.
  • Throughout the war I carried this precious volume as my Bible in associating with people".
  • After that, Ghilardi kept his precious volume of forgotten lore under lock and key.
4. precious journalist = drogi dziennikarz precious journalist
5. precious artwork = cenna szata graficzna precious artwork
(15) item, icon, one
Kolokacji: 3
(17) day, opportunity, Bunny
Kolokacji: 3
(19) Love, darling
Kolokacji: 2
(21) Lord, son, word
Kolokacji: 3
(22) egg, seed, fruit, grain
Kolokacji: 4
(23) drop, pearl
Kolokacji: 2
(24) air, fuel, oxygen, oil
Kolokacji: 4
(25) coin, currency, dollar
Kolokacji: 3
(26) herb, spice
Kolokacji: 2
adverbio + precious
Kolokacji: 4
most precious • infinitely precious • overly precious • equally precious
precious + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
precious to • precious in • precious of • precious for

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