substantive
noun
a noun.
substantives
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pluralof substantive.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In conjunction also with other substantives, it has served as a powerful degree of comparison and denotes a superlative expression of contempt.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
In Middle Irish the declensions and conjugations are much simplified and the neuter gender is given up in substantives.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
In most American idioms their origin from substantives is readily recognizable.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton
A different Latin suffix -culum, forming substantives from verbs, is represented in the form -cle in several words adopted through French, as miracle, oracle, spectacle. -um, neuter term., as medium.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
He has a perfect hatred of pronouns, and for fear of a possible entanglement between 'hims' and 'hers' and 'its,' he will repeat not merely a substantive, but a whole group of substantives.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
