relativizer

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noun

Someone or something that relativizes.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nounrelativizer (plural relativizers)

plural relativizers

  1. Someone or something that relativizes.

    Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told Bild it was not enough that Extinction Rebellion had distanced itself from Mr. Hallam. […] “As keen as they criticize climate change deniers,” he said, “they should also do it with Holocaust relativizers.”

    2019 November 21, Elian Peltier, “Extinction Rebellion Co-Founder Apologizes for Holocaust Remarks”, in The New York Times
  2. human sciencesA grammatical element used to indicate a relative clause.

Origin

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 関係詞節標識 /関系词节标识
  • 関係詞節標識 /関系词节标识 (guānxicíjié-biāozhì)grammatical element
Hebrew מילת זיקה
  • מילת זיקה (milát ziká)grammatical element
Japanese 関係節化形式
  • 関係節化形式 (kankei-setsuka keishiki)grammatical element
Polish relatywizator
  • relatywizatorgrammatical element

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Cite this entry
APA

relativizer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/relativizer

MLA

“relativizer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/relativizer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “relativizer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/relativizer.

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