Definitions from Wiktionary (preposition)
▸ noun: (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
▸ noun: (grammar, broad sense) An adposition.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
▸ verb: (sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of pre-position. [(transitive) To position (something) ahead of time. (The objects thus positioned are usually supplies, tools, instruments, weapons, or troops.)]
Preposition stranding,
object of a preposition,
Preposition and postposition,
golden rule preposition,
scripture preposition,
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▸ noun: (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
▸ noun: (grammar, broad sense) An adposition.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
▸ verb: (sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of pre-position. [(transitive) To position (something) ahead of time. (The objects thus positioned are usually supplies, tools, instruments, weapons, or troops.)]
Similar:
proposition,
præposition,
prep.,
prep,
postposition,
adposition,
prepositional phrase,
intransitive preposition,
prepositional verb,
prefix,
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