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Noun postposition has 1 sense
  1. postposition - (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)
    --1 is a kind of     place, position
    Derived form: verb postpose1

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Postpositions

Noun:

A postposition is a type of grammatical particle that appears after a noun or pronoun, typically in some languages as an ending, and determines the relationship between the noun/pronoun and other words in a sentence.

Example sentence:

He went to the market after work.

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