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POSTPOSITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does postposition mean? 

POSTPOSITION (noun)
  The noun POSTPOSITION has 1 sense:

1. (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)play

  Familiarity information: POSTPOSITION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POSTPOSITION (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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