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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
postposition
    n 1: (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)

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Postposition \Post`po*si"tion\, n. [Cf. F. postposition. See
   Postpone.]
   1. The act of placing after, or the state of being placed
      after. "The postposition of the nominative case to the
      verb." --Mede.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another
      word; -- distinguished from preposition.
      [1913 Webster]

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