- prepositional
- adjective see preposition
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
prepositional
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Prepositional — Prep o*si tion*al, a. [Cf. F. pr[ e]positionnel.] Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition. Early. {Prep o*si tion*al*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
prepositional — index preparatory Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
prepositional — 1. adjective a) Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition. b) Of the prepositional case. 2. noun The prepositional case … Wiktionary
prepositional — adj. Prepositional is used with these nouns: ↑phrase … Collocations dictionary
prepositional — preposition ► NOUN Grammar ▪ a word governing a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element, as in ‘she arrived after dinner’ and ‘what did you do it for?’. DERIVATIVES prepositional adjective … English terms dictionary
prepositional — adjective of or relating to or formed with a preposition (Freq. 3) prepositional phrase • Pertains to noun: ↑preposition • Topics: ↑linguistics … Useful english dictionary
Prepositional case — is a grammatical case that marks the object of a preposition. This term can be used in languages where nouns have a declensional form that appears exclusively in combination with certain prepositions. For example, in Russian and Polish, the case… … Wikipedia
Prepositional marketing — is a term used in marketing describing the various prepositions (at, to, with) used to describe the nature and orientation of specific marketing conditions in regards to the type of approach initiated by marketers when establishing channels of… … Wikipedia
prepositional phrase — n technical a phrase beginning with a preposition, such as in bed or at war … Dictionary of contemporary English
prepositional phrase — n. a phrase consisting of a preposition and the noun or noun substitute that is its object … English World dictionary
Prepositional pronoun — A prepositional pronoun is a special form of a personal pronoun that is used as the object of a preposition. English does not have distinct prepositional forms of pronouns. The same set of objective pronouns are used after verbs and prepositions… … Wikipedia
