Collocative meaning
【正确答案】：Collocative meaning consists of the associations a word acquires on account of the meanings of words which tend to occur in its environment. Words have collocative meanings because they tend to co-occur with other words in the expression of meaning. This co-occurrence or mutual expectancy of words, which is called collocation, is part of the meaning of a word. For example, pretty and handsome share common ground in the meaning “good-looking”, but they have different collocative meanings, as they are distinguished by the range of nouns with which they are likely to collocate: pretty is usually used with girl, while handsome is usually used with boy.
