Determiner

Quick meaning: Determiner is a noun meaning Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.

Meaning

Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.

More Meanings

1. A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
2. A dependent function in a noun phrase that marks it as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous)

In the sentence "Many people voted for him," the word many is a determiner.

Definite articles, indefinite articles, and cardinal numbers acting as quantifiers are types of determiners.

Word Forms

• determiners

Synonyms for determiner

Depending on context, synonyms include determinant, determinative, clincher.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include determinative, determinant, clincher, denoter, determinator, discriminator.

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