late 14c., from Latin praepositionem (nominative praepositio) "a putting before, a prefixing," noun of action from past participle stem of praeponere "put before," from prae " [..]

A word that starts a phrase. eg on, with, of, after, before, at, under, over, in, for, from, by. A preposition may refer to place, time, position, manner or reason.

A part of speech which indicates a connection, between two other parts of speech, such as 'to', 'with', 'by' or 'from'. 'She came from China', 'H [..]

A word that begins an adverbial phrase or an adjectival phrase indicating time, place, manner, causality, for example in, on, after, before, by, under, over, of, through. Pronouns following prepositio [..]

A word that links a noun with the rest of the sentence.  Prepositions usually indicate location (in, on, with) or time (before, during, at).

(n) 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(n) (linguistics) the placing [..]

(preposisjon): a class of function words. Prepositions generally express a relation, often in time or space (or abstractions of these). They can also express relations of agency, cause, means, manner, [..]

a word that links a noun or pronoun to another type of word.

A grammatical word which occurs in conjunction with a noun or phrase and which expresses the relation it has to other elements in a sentence. In an analytic language like English prepositions play a c [..]

(part of speech) a word (such as of, above, or during) that establishes a relationship or context for a noun, verb, or adjective in a sentence by linking it to an object (noun or pronoun). In the sent [..]

a word that shows some type of relationship between a noun or noun phrase and another word, including time, location, quantity, state or purpose e.g. "by, to, at, with, on, for, in, from, of& [..]

  A word that is normally combined with a noun, pronoun, adverb, or prepositional phrase. It typically precedes what it modifies (e.g., to town, in summer, from here, outside of the home, over the tab [..]

(grammar,strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used [..]