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

2 senses of subordinating conjunction

Sense 1
subordinating conjunction -- (the subordination that occurs when a conjunction makes one linguistic unit a constituent of another)
       => conjunction -- (the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction)

Sense 2
subordinating conjunction, subordinate conjunction -- (a conjunction (like `since' or `that' or `who') that introduces a dependent clause)
       => conjunction, conjunctive, connective, continuative -- (an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences)