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Meaning
Noun
●
In Grammar & Parts of speech:
Any of a
class
of non-inflecting
words
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
.
●
In Grammar:
An adposition.
●
A
proposition
; an
exposition
; a discourse.
Verb
●
To place in a
location
before some other
event
occurs.
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Origin
preposition
English
praepositio
Latin
Sourced from
Etym
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