Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun preposition

2 senses of preposition

Sense 1
preposition -- (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)
       => function word, closed-class word -- (a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning)

Sense 2
preposition -- ((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))
       => place, position -- (an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position")