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 adeterminer in anoun phrase and modifies the head noun.
Etymologies
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From pre- + determiner.
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