Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

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  1. affix

What Google Knows

A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word. Particularly in the study of languages, a prefix is also called a preformative, because it alters the form of the word to which it is affixed.

Related Definition

  1. prefix:

    n Something placed before another

    n (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.

    n (telecommunications) A set of digits placed before a telephone number, to indicate where the number is based, what type of phone number it is (landline, mobile, toll-free, premium rate etc.)

    n A title added to a person's name, such as Mr. or Dr.

    n (computing) An initial segment of a string of characters.

    v (transitive) To determine beforehand; to set in advance.

    v (transitive) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start.


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