preposition
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/
The English word “preposition” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
- An adposition.
- A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
Etymology
From Middle English preposicioun, from Old French preposicion, from Latin praepositio, praepositionem, from praepono (“to place before”), equivalent to pre- + position. Compare French préposition. So called because it is placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in a bridge of iron, he comes from town, it is good for food, he escaped by running.
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More English words
- preportioned
- preportioning
- prepose
- preposed
- preposition of place
- prepositional
- prepositional article
- prepositional case
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