postposition

  1. Noun.  (grammar) Any of various words in languages such as Hindi, Japanese and Finno-Ugric languages (Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian) which serve the same purpose as a preposition but come ''after'' the noun.
  2. Noun.  The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.

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