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Word: preposition (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • grammar: A closed class of non-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.
  • obsolete A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

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Verb:

  • To place in a location before some other event occurs.

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