Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An adjectival word that can stand before an article, a possessive pronoun, or another determiner, as all in all the flowers or both in both his children.

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  • noun grammar The function of a phrase that precedes a determiner in a noun phrase and modifies the head noun.

Etymologies

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From pre- + determiner.

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