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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.
📖 Definitions of "Prep."
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(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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A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Prep."
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| Word | Definition |
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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. |
| prepositional | Of, 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. |
| prepositive | Put before; prefixed. |
| premodificationnoun | (grammar) modification by a premodifier |
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