verbal noun

American  

[vur-buhl noun] / ˈvɜr bəl ˈnaʊn /

noun

Grammar.

1. a noun derived from a verb, especially by a process applicable to most or all verbs. In English, a verbal noun uses the -ing form, as in , or the infinitive form, as in In Latin, examples of verbal nouns include dictiō “act of speaking, utterance” (from dīcere “to say, tell, speak”) and cantus “singing, song” (from canere ”to sing“).

   Eating is fun

   To see is to believe.

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verbal noun British  

noun

1. a noun derived from a verb, such as smoking in the sentence smoking is bad for you See also gerund

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Etymology

Origin of verbal noun

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

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verbal noun

N. B. is the verbal noun of not of It is strange how little use has been made of that profound and most pregnant text, John i.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The imperfect tense is merely the present with the additional verbal noun cuchi added, as— Nacal in cah cuchi, I was ascending.

From The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 by Daniel Garrison Brinton

Being a verbal noun, it is called in grammar a participle, rather than a mere adjective.

From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock

The verbal nouns and participles are nearly the same as in Mth.-Mg., the first verbal noun and the present participle being mār and mārat, as in Mg.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

Leaving should be used either as a gerund, leaving a posterity, or as a verbal noun, the leaving of a posterity.

From The Coverley Papers by Various