SUFFIX
\sˈʌfɪks], \sˈʌfɪks], \s_ˈʌ_f_ɪ_k_s]\
Definitions of SUFFIX
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
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A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.
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To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.
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A letter or letters, syllable or syllables, added to the end of a word or root to alter the meaning; as, -ant is the suffix in defendant.
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To add, as a syllable, to the end of a word.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A particle added to the root of a word.
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To add a letter or syllable to a word to mark different notions and relations.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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