What part of speech is amalgam?

Amalgam can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. amalgam is a noun, singular of amalgams.

Inflections

Noun

What does amalgam mean?

Definitions

Verb

amalgam - To amalgamate.

Noun

amalgam - a combination or blend of diverse things; "his theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas"
amalgam - an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams

Examples of amalgam

#   Sentence  
1. noun His theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas.
2. noun The recent elections in Iraq were dominated by an amalgam of religiously fundamentalist Shi'ite organizations, principally the Dawa Party and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).
3. noun Miami has an interesting amalgam of North American and Latin American culture.
Sentence  
noun
His theory is an amalgam of earlier ideas.
The recent elections in Iraq were dominated by an amalgam of religiously fundamentalist Shi'ite organizations, principally the Dawa Party and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI).
Miami has an interesting amalgam of North American and Latin American culture.

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