Prenominal

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prenominal \Pre*nom"i*nal\, a.
     Serving as a prefix in a compound name. --Sir T. Browne.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  prenominal
       adj : of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify; "`red'
             is an attributive adjective in `a red apple'" [syn: {attributive}]
             [ant: {predicative}]