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

In the examples above, the subject of the action is a single, unmodified term, immediately preceding the verbal noun, and the construction is as good as any that could be used.

From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Juliet Helena Lumbard James

"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

Generally speaking, the first two persons are formed from the verbal noun in b, which is by origin a future passive participle, and the third person is formed from the present participle.

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

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

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