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determiner

noun
/dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nə(ɹ)/UK/dɪˈtɝ.mɪ.nɚ/US

Etymology

From determine + -er.

  1. derived from determino — “to bound, limit, prescribe, fix, determine”
  2. derived from determiner
  3. inherited from determinen
  4. formed as determiner — “determine + -er”

Definitions

  1. Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.

    • Near-synonym: definer
    • In quality management, the determiners of quality sometimes differ across use cases.
    • The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship […]

  2. A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a…

    A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.

    • Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous)
    • Definite articles, indefinite articles, and cardinal numbers acting as quantifiers are types of determiners.

  3. A dependent function in a noun phrase that marks it as definite or indefinite. This…

    A dependent function in a noun phrase that marks it 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.

    • Near-synonym: determinative (broadly synonymous)
    • In the sentence "Many people voted for him," the word many is a determiner.

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Derived

determiner phrase, predeterminer, postdeterminer, null determiner, determinerhood, determinerless

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA