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PRENOMINAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prenominal mean?
• PRENOMINAL (adjective)
The adjective PRENOMINAL has 1 sense:
1. of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify
Familiarity information: PRENOMINAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify
Synonyms:
attributive; prenominal
Context example:
'red' is an attributive adjective in 'a red apple'
Similar:
attributive genitive (a word in the genitive case used as an attributive adjective)
Domain category:
grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))
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