PREPOSITION
Dictionary entry overview: What does preposition mean?
• PREPOSITION (noun)
The noun PREPOSITION has 2 senses:
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
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)
Familiarity information: PREPOSITION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PREPOSITION (noun)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("preposition" is a kind of...):
closed-class word; function word (a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning)
Meaning:
(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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("preposition" is a kind of...):
place; position (an item on a list or in a sequence)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
