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Preposition

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Preposition"

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Word	Definition
onto	(mathematics, of a function) Attaining each of the values in its codomain; having its image equal to its codomain.
intonoun	Initialism of Irish National Teachers' Organisation.
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.
connectivenoun	Serving or tending to connect; connecting.
prepositivenoun	Put before; prefixed.
propositionnoun	(countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
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.]
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.
postpositionnoun	(grammar) A word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
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.
intransitive prepositionnoun	(linguistics) A preposition used intransitively, ie, without an object, traditionally called an adverb, sometimes a particle.
prepositional verbnoun	(linguistics) A two-word phrase, consisting of a verb and a preposition, that has idiomatic meaning.
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.
prepositive adjectivenoun	(grammar) An adjective that occurs on an antecedent basis within a noun phrase.
prepositionhoodnoun	(linguistics) The property of being a preposition.
adprepnoun	(grammar) A word that functions both as an adverb and as a preposition.
prepositional casenoun	(grammar) A noun case serving as object of a preposition. Prepositions that often govern the prepositional case include "about", "in", "on", and "near". Russian is an example of a language that uses the prepositional case.
pref.noun	Abbreviation of Prefecture.
premodifiernoun	(grammar) A modifier placed before the head of the phrase.