Ambiposition

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An adposition that can occur either before or after its complement.

    "The ascribing of postpositions to Indo-European is not well founded. The elements concerned may have been ambipositions."

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"The ascribing of postpositions to Indo-European is not well founded. The elements concerned may have been ambipositions."

Etymology

From ambi- + position.

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