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noun 
  1. (grammar) 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).
  2. (grammar) 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.
  3. (context, Colloquial) Something that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
    • 1901: Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log
    • : 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,
Translations: 
  • Dutch: (t, nl, aanwijzer, m)
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, Translations to be checked)
Etymology: (-er, determine)


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