prepositional object

1. 1.

   the object governed by a preposition

   Synonymsobject of a preposition

   Broaderobject

Questions about prepositional object

What does prepositional object mean?

prepositional object means "the object governed by a preposition".

What is another word for prepositional object?

Close synonyms include object of a preposition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prepositional object a common word?

prepositional object is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.