Ambiposition

Origin

- + position

Full definition of ambiposition

Noun

1. (linguistics) 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.

Hyponyms

• preposition
• postposition

Hypernyms

• adposition
• word
• part of speech

Derived terms

• ambipositional