suffix
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1. suffix - Noun
2. suffix - Verb
Meaning
A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.
To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.
'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.
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According to the minutes of a meeting, the Bihar Chief Electoral Officer held with major political parties recently, the auxiliary polling stations will have the same serial number as the main polling station, but with a suffix like ‘A’, ‘B’ or ‘C’.
1 Contains the Proto-Altaic dual suffix -/rʲV/ : "both breasts" – "chest" – "heart".
A definite article was realised as a suffix, that retained an independent declension e.g. troll (a troll) – trollit (the troll), hǫll ( a hall) – hǫllin (the hall), armr (an arm) – armrinn (the arm).