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preposition |
2 definitions found 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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