preposition
English Thesaurus
1. a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | closed-class word, function word, |
| definition | : | a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning (noun.communication) |
2. (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached) (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | place, position, |
| definition | : | an item on a list or in a sequence (noun.communication) |
| domain category | : | linguistics, |
| definition | : | the scientific study of language (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | prepose, |
| definition | : | place before another constituent in the sentence (verb.contact) |
| derivation | : | prepose, |
| definition | : | place before another constituent in the sentence (verb.contact) |
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