Category:Preposition

Prep`o*si"tion, n. Etym: [l. praepositio, fr. praeponere to place Before; prae before + ponere to put, place: cf. F. préposition. See Position, and cf. Provost.]

1. (gram.)

Defn: a word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an Adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used With a noun or pronoun (in english always in the objective case) to Make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually Placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of Iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.

2. A proposition; an exposition; a discourse. [obs.] He made a long preposition and oration. Fabyan.