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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Preposition \Prep`o*si"tion\, n. [L. praepositio fr praeponere
to place before prae before + ponere to put place: cf F.
pr['e]position. See {Position}, and cf {Provost}.]
1. (Gram.) A word employed to connect a 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 -- so called because usually placed before the word
with which it is phrased; as a bridge of iron; he comes
from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.
2. A proposition; an exposition; a discourse. [Obs.]
He made a long preposition and oration. --Fabyan.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
preposition
n : 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
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