Preposition

Noun

 * : A closed class of non-inflecting words typically 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.
 * 1)  A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
 * , Robert Fabyan
 * He made a long preposition and oration.

Coordinate terms

 * adposition
 * circumposition
 * postposition

Derived terms

 * preposition of time
 * preposition of place
 * prepositional


 * prepositionally
 * prepositional phrase

Related terms

 * prepose


 * prepositive

Verb

 * 1) To place in a location before some other event occurs.
 * It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.

Thesaurus
adjectival, adjective, adverb, adverbial, adversative conjunction, attributive, conjunction, conjunctive adverb, coordinating conjunction, copulative, copulative conjunction, correlative conjunction, disjunctive, disjunctive conjunction, exclamatory noun, form class, form word, function class, gerundive, interjection, part of speech, participle, particle, past participle, perfect participle, present participle, subordinating conjunction, verbal adjective

Etymology 1
From praepositio, from praeponere (to place before); prae (before) + ponere (to put, place); compare French préposition. (See position, and compare provost.) So called because it is usually placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in undefined:, undefined:, undefined:, undefined:.

Alternative forms

 * præposition

Etymology 2
From pre- + position

Alternative forms

 * pre-position

Noun

 * Ancient Greek: πρόθεσις (próthesis)
 * Arabic: (jārr),  (ḥarf jarr)
 * Armenian: ,
 * Breton:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese: 介詞, 介词 (jiècí), 前置詞, 前置词 (qiánzhìcí)
 * Croatian: prijedlog, prepozicija
 * Czech:
 * Danish: forholdsord, præposition
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ettepanek
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: preposición
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (próthesi)
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: kata depan
 * Interlingua: preposition


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 前置詞 (ぜんちし, zenchishi)
 * Korean: 전치사 (jeonchisa)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: prepositione
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: roimhear
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: präpod
 * West Frisian: ferhâldingswurd

Noun
preposition



Noun

 * 1)  A word that is used in conjunction with a noun or pronoun in order to form a phrase.

Noun

 * 1) a preposition (part of speech)