Associations to the word «Postposition»

Wiktionary

POSTPOSITION, noun. (grammar) Any of various words in languages such as German, Hindi, Japanese and Finno-Ugric languages (Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian) that have the same purpose as a preposition but come after the noun.
POSTPOSITION, noun. The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.

Dictionary definition

POSTPOSITION, noun. (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne