Preposition

Quick meaning: Preposition is a noun meaning (grammar, broad sense) An adposition.

Meaning

(grammar, broad sense) An adposition.

More Meanings

1. (sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of pre-position.
2. (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.
3. (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

Example Sentences

It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.

[…] he made a longe preposicion & oracion cōcernynge yͤ allegiaūce which he exortyd his lordes to owe

I love this girl. “On which I can get my hands” — even in her darkest moment, she cannot bring herself to end a sentence with a preposition.

322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.

Word Forms

• prepositions
• prepositioning
• prepositioned
• pre-position

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include onto, into, adposition, connective, prepositive, proposition.

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