POSTPOSITION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("postposition" is a kind of...):

place; position (an item on a list or in a sequence)

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Derivation:

postpose (place after another constituent in the sentence)

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