adposition
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin adpositio, from adpositum, past participle of adponere, an alternative form of apponere (“to put near”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
adposition (plural adpositions)
- (grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context.
SynonymsEdit
- preposition (broad sense)
HyponymsEdit
- preposition (narrow sense)
- postposition
- circumposition
TranslationsEdit
element combining with a phrase and indicating how to interpret the phrase in the context
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