1. (n.) A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.

2. (n.) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

adjectival adjective adverb adverbial adversative conjunction attributive conjunction conjunctive adverb coordinating conjunction copulative copulative conjunction correlative conjunction disjunctive disjunctive conjunction exclamatory noun form class form word function class gerundive interjection part of speech participle particle past participle perfect participle present participle subordinating conjunction verbal adjective