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postpose

postpose verb: to place (a word or phrase) after another in a sentence, especially in order to modify it.

Verb

postpose (third-person singular simple present postposes, present participle postposing, simple past and past participle postposed)

  1. (transitive) To place (a word or phrase) after another in a sentence, especially in order to modify it
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To postpone.
    • kings are postposed to bishopsa. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC

postpose meaning in Bengali

postpose in Bengali

স্থগিত করা

Forms of postpose

third-person singular presentpostposes
present participlepostposing
past participlepostposed
pastpostposed

Origin of postpose

From French postposer. See post- and pose.

Questions about postpose

What does postpose mean?
Postpose means to place (a word or phrase) after another in a sentence, especially in order to modify it.
What is postpose in Bengali?
Postpose in Bengali is স্থগিত করা. See Postpose meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is postpose?
Postpose is a verb.
What is the past tense of postpose?
The past tense of postpose is postposed.

Words near postpose in the dictionary

  1. postponence
  2. postponer
  3. postponers
  4. postpones
  5. postponing
  6. postpose
  7. postposed
  8. postposes
  9. postposing
  10. postposit
  11. postposited

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Adapted from Wiktionary: postpose (page history and authors); postpose (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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