subordinating conjunction

1. 1.

   the subordination that occurs when a conjunction makes one linguistic unit a constituent of another

   Broaderconjunction
2. 2.

   a conjunction (like `since' or `that' or `who') that introduces a dependent clause

   Synonymssubordinate conjunction

   Broaderconjunction

Questions about subordinating conjunction

What does subordinating conjunction mean?

subordinating conjunction means "the subordination that occurs when a conjunction makes one linguistic unit a constituent of another". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for subordinating conjunction?

Close synonyms include subordinate conjunction. 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 subordinating conjunction a common word?

subordinating conjunction 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.