Townsend plan. see under Townsend, Francis Everett Townsend, Francis Everett, 1867â1960, American reformer, leader of an old-age pension movement, b. Fairbury, Ill., grad. Univ. of Nebraska medical school, 1903. He practiced medicine in several Western states before he settled (1919) at Long Beach, Calif......
Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: - 1 oma(Suffix) A suffix forming nouns indicating disease or morbidity. - 2 oma(Suffix) A suffix forming nouns indicating tumors or masses, especially cancerous ones.
Suffix. In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.Particularly in the study of Semitic languages, a suffix is called an afformative, as they can alter the form of the words to which they are fixed.ommon examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Particularly in the study of Semitic languages, a suffix is called an afformative, as they can alter the form of the words to which they are fixed.