adposition
Syllables: ad·po·si·tion/ˌædpəˈzɪʃən/
adposition noun: an element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
Noun
adposition (plural adpositions)
- An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
- Throughout this book, I have assumed that adpositions (prepositions and postpositions) are not lexical categories, but rather functional categories.[…]While this view of adpositions is far from unprecedented, it runs contrary to the more standard generative treatment, championed by Jackendoff...2003, Mark C. Baker, Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives, Cambridge University Press, page 303
- It is well known in West African linguistics that languages in this broad sense display adpositions that emerge out of these two sources, namely nouns and verbs.2008, Amani Bohoussou, Stavros Skopeteas, Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in Nànáfwê, Elisabeth Verhoeven, Stavros Skopeteas, Yong-Min Shin, Yoko Nishina, Johannes Helmbrecht (editors)...
- Synonyms:
- preposition
adposition meaning in Urdu and Gujarati
adposition in Urdu
- adposition; preposition or postposition
- حرف ربط ḥarf rabt
adposition in Gujarati
- adposition, generally a postposition
- શબ્દયોગીઅવ્યય śabdayogīavyaya
Synonyms of adposition
Forms of adposition
| plural | adpositions |
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Origin of adposition
From ad- + position, from Latin adpositio, from adpositum, past participle of adponere, an alternative form of apponere (“to put near”).
Words formed from adposition
Words that rhyme with adposition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
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- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
Questions about adposition
- What does adposition mean?
- Adposition means an element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
- What is adposition in Urdu?
- Adposition in Urdu is حرف ربط (ḥarf rabt). See Adposition meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is adposition?
- Adposition is a noun.
- How do you pronounce adposition?
- Adposition is pronounced /ˌædpəˈzɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of adposition?
- The plural of adposition is adpositions.
Words near adposition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: adposition (page history and authors); حرف ربط (Urdu) (page history and authors); શબ્દયોગીઅવ્યય (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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