preposition
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word
Types & categories
- function word hypernym
Sense 2 noun
(linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)
Types & categories
- position hypernym
Related & opposite
- prepose derivation
- linguistics domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | function word |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | prepose |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | linguistics |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | position |