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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PREPOSITION

From Latin praepositiō a putting before, from pōnere to place.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PREPOSITION

preposition  [ˌprɛpəˈzɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREPOSITION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Preposition is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PREPOSITION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Preposition and postposition

Prepositions are a grammatically distinct class of words whose most central members characteristically express spatial or temporal relations or serve to mark various syntactic functions and semantic roles. In that the primary function is relational, a preposition typically combines with another constituent to form a prepositional phrase, relating the complement to the context in which the phrase occurs. The word preposition comes from Latin, a language in which such a word is usually placed before its complement, thus it is "pre-positioned". English is another such language, though there is no requirement that the preposition precede a complement. In many languages, the words with this grammatical function come after, not before, the complement. Such words are then commonly called postpositions. Similarly, circumpositions consist of two parts that appear on each side of the complement. The technical term used to refer collectively to prepositions, postpositions, and circumpositions is adposition. Some linguists use the word "preposition" instead of "adposition" for all three cases.

Definition of preposition in the English dictionary

The definition of preposition in the dictionary is a word or group of words used before a noun or pronoun to relate it grammatically or semantically to some other constituent of a sentence prep.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREPOSITION


apposition
ˌæpəˈzɪʃən
composition
ˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən
deposition
ˌdɛpəˈzɪʃən
disposition
ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən
electrodeposition
ɪˈlektrəʊˌdepəˈzɪʃən
exposition
ˌɛkspəˈzɪʃən
imposition
ˌɪmpəˈzɪʃən
interposition
ˌɪntəpəˈzɪʃən
juxtaposition
ˌdʒʌkstəpəˈzɪʃən
opposition
ˌɒpəˈzɪʃən
oviposition
ˌəʊvɪpəˈzɪʃən
position
pəˈzɪʃən
predisposition
ˌpriːdɪspəˈzɪʃən
presupposition
ˌpriːsʌpəˈzɪʃən
proposition
ˌprɒpəˈzɪʃən
reposition
ˌriːpəˈzɪʃən
superimposition
ˌsuːpərˌɪmpəˈzɪʃən
superposition
ˌsuːpəpəˈzɪʃən
supposition
ˌsʌpəˈzɪʃən
transposition
ˌtrænspəˈzɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREPOSITION

preponderating
preponderation
prepone
preportion
prepose
prepositional
prepositional phrase
prepositionally
prepositive
prepositively
prepositor
prepossess
prepossessing
prepossessingly
prepossessingness
prepossession
preposterous
preposterously
preposterousness
prepostor

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREPOSITION

accreditation
acquisition
addition
ambition
audition
competition
condition
definition
edition
exhibition
expedition
ignition
in a position
in addition
in mint condition
limited edition
nutrition
recognition
tradition
transition
tuition

Synonyms and antonyms of preposition in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «preposition» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PREPOSITION

Find out the translation of preposition to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of preposition from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «preposition» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

介词
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

preposición
570 millions of speakers

English

preposition
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पूर्वसर्ग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حرف الجر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

предлог
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

preposição
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পদান্বয়ী অব্যয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

préposition
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Preposisi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Präposition
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

前置詞
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전치사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Preposisi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giới từ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முன்னிடைச்சொல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पूर्वकल्पना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

edat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

preposizione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przyimek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прийменник
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prepoziție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πρόθεση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voorsetsel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

preposition
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

preposisjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of preposition

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREPOSITION»

The term «preposition» is regularly used and occupies the 55.650 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PREPOSITION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «preposition» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «preposition» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about preposition

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREPOSITION»

Discover the use of preposition in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to preposition and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Preposition Stranding: From Syntactic to Functional Analyses
Among the linguists he reviews are Chomsky, Tuyn, Cureton, and Fodor. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ken-ichi Takami, 1992
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The Preposition Book: Practice Toward Mastering English ...
The Preposition Book is intended as a thorough guide and workbook to address students’ questions and misconceptions regarding English prepositions and improve their ability to use prepositions fluently.
Tom Cole, 2006
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Preposition Placement in English: A Usage-based Approach
This is the first book to investigate preposition placement across all types of clauses that license it, such as questions, exclamations and wh-clauses, and those which exhibit categorical stranding, such as non-wh relative clauses, ...
Thomas Hoffmann, 2011
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English Prepositions Explained
The overall aim is to explain how and why meaning changes when one preposition is swapped for another in the same context. While retaining most of the structure of the original, this edition says more about more prepositions.
Seth Lindstromberg, 2010
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If You Were a Preposition
A fun look at how prepositions are used.
Nancy Loewen, 2006
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The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, ...
Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this book provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions.
Andrea Tyler, Vyvyan Evans, 2003
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Semantic, Pragmatic and Discourse Perspectives of ...
"This book is an in-depth study of three locative prepositions which are often interchangeable in Indonesian, namely, di, pada and dalam - roughly corresponding to the English on, in, at.
Dwi Noverini Djenar, 2007
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225 Verb & Preposition Combinations with Audio:
A preposition is a word which comes before a noun or a pronoun and shows the relationship betweenthat nounorpronounand other words in the sentence. • Thisisthe charger for my cell phone. The preposition for shows therelationship ...
Michael DiGiacomo, 2014
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Preposition Practice
The book features: -- Contextualized practice to make it easy to see meanings that determine a particular form -- Varied practice, with a mixture of exercise types focusing on both form and meaning -- Graded practice, from items with simple ...
L. L. Keane, 1991
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Johnson's and Webster's Verbal Examples: With Special ...
With Special Reference to Exemplifying Usage in Dictionary Entries Kusujiro Miyoshi. 7: Verbal Examples for Adjective-preposition and Verb-preposition Collocations 7. 1 The Purpose of This Chapter Sections 5.1.4 and 6.1.1 to 6.1.6 revealed ...
Kusujiro Miyoshi, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREPOSITION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term preposition is used in the context of the following news items.
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What Language Learning Cannot Be
One such is the way you can add the regular past participle suffix -ed to a noun and use it with the intransitive preposition out to get a way of ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Jul 15»
2
Why are the Reds doing poorly?
To his credit, the word was used as a noun, adjective, verb — pretty much everything except a preposition or a pronoun. Then later in the ... «Troy Daily News, Jul 15»
3
Increase Urea Quota, State Plea to Centre
As demand will be more in August, the State Government wants to preposition fertilisers at block and panchayat levels to safeguard the interest ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
4
Rockin' the chocolatina
Another way of saying to lose weight is adelgazar; you can see its connection to the word for thin, delgado. Use the preposition para to express ... «The Bogota Post, Jul 15»
5
On Yemen, After Strikes on Mocha & Saudi Claims a Pause, Ban …
... that we've seen, to enable our humanitarian colleagues to get the aid to where it's needed, to preposition, and stockpile, and to reach the millions that need it. «Inner City Press, Jul 15»
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Four Internet “Faux Pas” That We All Need to Relax About
... someone out for technical, like starting a sentence with a conjunction, using a sentence fragment, or ending a sentence with a preposition (all ... «SlashGear, Jul 15»
7
On Yemen, UN Envoy Not Involved in Saleh-UAE Talks, UN Tells ICP
... that we've seen, to enable our humanitarian colleagues to get the aid to where it's needed, to preposition, and stockpile, and to reach the millions that need it. «Inner City Press, Jul 15»
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Analysts' Recent Ratings Updates for Pinnacle West Capital (PNW)
“PNW offers an attractive value preposition among the regulated utilities with annual rates of return at 14%,”; 6/29/2015 – Pinnacle West Capital had its “hold” ... «Dakota Financial News, Jul 15»
9
Sony Bravia Android first impression
It provides the best input services and also offers excellent voice control upfront. The beauty and unique service preposition is that they have ... «The Wiire, Jul 15»
10
10 Reasons You Don't Actually Need a Good Night's Sleep
So, I'm all about meeting people where they're at -- behind the preposition right? -- and that includes tiny people, like my son. Little kids have ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
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