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Prep.

(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words 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.

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noun
  1. 1

    (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words 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.

  2. 2

    A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Prep."

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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.
adprepnoun(grammar) A word that functions both as an adverb and as a preposition.
preverbnoun(grammar) A separable verb prefix or a particle that precedes a verb.
prednoun(countable, informal) Abbreviation of predicate. [(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.]
p-wordnoun(euphemistic) Any vulgar/taboo word starting with p, e.g. piss, penis, pussy, poof, prick, or Paki.
pronnoun(Internet, leetspeak) Filter-avoidance spelling of porn.
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 phrasenoun(grammar) A phrase containing both a preposition and its object or complement and which may be used as an adjunct or a modifier.
phrasal prepositional verbnoun(grammar) A multi-word verb, consisting of a verb followed by an adverbial particle and a preposition, that has idiomatic meaning.
phrasal prepositionnoun(grammar) A preposition composed of several words rather than just one.
prepositionalOf, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.
preverbal(psychology, linguistics) At an early stage of development in which one is not yet able to communicate by means of words.
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.
prepositional articlenoun(grammar) In some languages, such as French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, a contraction of a preposition and an article, e.g. au in French (a contraction of à and le).
premodifiernoun(grammar) A modifier placed before the head of the phrase.
prepositional verbnoun(linguistics) A two-word phrase, consisting of a verb and a preposition, that has idiomatic meaning.
subst.noun(grammar) Abbreviation of substantive. [Part of a text that carries the meaning, such as words and their ordering.]
indefinite articlenoun(grammar) A word preceding a noun to indicate that the noun refers to any member of the class of objects named by the noun.
prepositivePut before; prefixed.
premodificationnoun(grammar) modification by a premodifier

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