💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Postposition"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| ergativenoun | (grammar) An ergative verb or other expression. |
| locativenoun | (grammar) The locative case. |
| postpositioningnoun | (grammar) An instance where a modifier appears after the noun it modifies. |
| prepositionnoun | (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. |
| propositionnoun | (countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered. |
| adpositionnoun | (grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition. |
| postnounnoun | (Korean linguistics) a particle which follows a noun. |
| prepositional verbnoun | (linguistics) A two-word phrase, consisting of a verb and a preposition, that has idiomatic meaning. |
| præpositionnoun | Obsolete spelling of preposition. [(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.] |
| prepositional phrasenoun | (grammar) A phrase containing both a preposition and its object or complement and which may be used as an adjunct or a modifier. |
| prepositional | Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition. |
| prepositionhoodnoun | (linguistics) The property of being a preposition. |
| prep.noun | (grammar) Abbreviation of preposition. [(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.] |
| prepnoun | (informal, countable) A prep school. |
| postmodifiernoun | (grammar) A modifier placed after the head of the phrase. |
| postpositive | (grammar, of an adjective or other modifier) Placed after the word modified, either immediately after, as in two men abreast, or as part of a complement, as in those two men are bad. |
| antepositionnoun | (rare) The placing of something in front of something else, especially of words in a sentence. |
| prepositive adjectivenoun | (grammar) An adjective that occurs on an antecedent basis within a noun phrase. |
| prefixnoun | (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc. |
| prepositional pronounnoun | In certain Romance languages, the pronoun form which must be used following a preposition. |
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