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.
Definition. A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word or root (i.e., a base form), serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending.Adjective: suffixal. There are two primary types of suffixes in English:1  A derivational suffix (such as the addition of-ly to an adjective to form an adverb) indicates what type of word it is. 2  An inflectional suffix (such as the addition of-s to a noun to form a plural) tells something about the word's grammatical behavior. A derivational suffix (such as the addition of-ly to an adjective to form an adverb) indicates what type of word it is. 2  An inflectional suffix (such as the addition of-s to a noun to form a plural) tells something about the word's grammatical behavior.