Preposition
Preposition , noun
[Latin praepositio, from praeponere to place before; prae before + ponere to put, place: compare French préposition. See Position, and compare Provost.]
1.
(Grammar) A word employed to connect a 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; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.
2.
A proposition; an exposition; a discourse. [Obsolete]
He made a long preposition and oration.