Usually means: Word governing noun, expressing relation.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word preposition:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. preposition: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. preposition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preposition, preposition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preposition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preposition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Preposition, preposition: Wordnik
  7. preposition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. preposition: Wiktionary
  9. preposition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. preposition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. preposition: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. preposition: Dictionary.com
  13. preposition: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. preposition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Preposition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Preposition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. preposition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. preposition: Rhymezone
  19. preposition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. preposition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. preposition: MyWord.info
  22. preposition: Free Dictionary
  23. preposition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. preposition: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. preposition: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Parts of Speech (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preposition: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preposition: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Preposition: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See prepositional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following 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.
noun:  (grammar, broad sense) An adposition.
noun:  (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
verb:  (sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of pre-position. [(transitive) To position (something) ahead of time. (The objects thus positioned are usually supplies, tools, instruments, weapons, or troops.)]

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