Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the prænomen; generic, as a name of an animal which precedes its specific name.
Wiktionary
- adj. grammar That is placed before a noun
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Serving as a prefix in a compound name.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify
Etymologies
- pre- + nominal (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And, if I understand correctly, prenominal phrasal adjectives are hyphenated–making them one word.”
“One man said we were prenominal, [B] or something or other like that -- I should worry.”
“And prenominal genitive determiner noun phrases are not adjectives, so to think that they can't be antecedents of pronouns for that reason is even madder than merely imagining that some obscure rule is being violated.”
“Hence I’m wondering if I used a phrasal adjective correctly and have no clue what prenominal means even after Googling it.”
“This last point isn’t at all trivial, in view of the odd property of superlatives that they are acceptable as prenominal modifiers in many cases in which the corresponding simple and comparative forms aren’t: You can say the closest bank to my house but not a close bank to my house or a closer bank to my house than the Deadwood Trust.”
“(adj): prenominal), pacifistic, dovish -- (opposed to war”
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Cinnamony Sea Anemones & Co.
Words full of m's and n's are a little-known cure for sadness.
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Words describing Language
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Tory's First Wordie List
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Words about words
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