Determiner

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  • noun. One that determines.
  • noun. A word belonging to a group of noun modifiers, which includes articles, demonstratives, possessive adjectives, and words such as any, both, or whose, and, in English, occupying the first position in a noun phrase or following another determiner.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who decides or determines.
  • noun. A determinant bachelor in a university. See determinant, 2.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who, or that which, determines or decides.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determiners include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).
  • noun. A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
  • noun. Something that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an argument that is conclusive
  • noun. one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases
  • noun. a determining or causal element or factor
    • Word Usage
    "You'll just find MORE means-plus-fxn type language, e.g., the determiner is a "processor.""
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    argument  statement  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    appar  ayez  dit-on  gloire  officer/nco  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    determinative  
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