verbal noun

American  

[vur-buhl naun] / 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

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Example Sentences

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verbal noun

Rampart is from Old Fr. rempar, a verbal noun from remparer, to repair; cf.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

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 reason of this is that in Cornish, as in the other Celtic languages, the infinitive is counted as a verbal noun, signifying the act of doing. 

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner

"Munázirah" the verbal noun of which, "Munázarah," may also mean "dispute."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

It is a coincidence—perhaps something more—that in the Quichua language huracan, third person singular present indicative of the verbal noun huraca, means “a stream of water falls perpendicularly.”

From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Daniel Garrison Brinton

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