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

Prohibit was formerly construed, as forbid still is, with the infinitive, but the construction with from and the verbal noun has now entirely superseded the older usage.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

The prepositional particle mono, when placed before an abstract or verbal noun, forms a noun which indicates the subject who does the action; e.g., mono before caqi makes monocaqi 'one who writes.'

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.

Noteworthy is the desiderative compound formed by adding the root cāh, wish, to the dative of a verbal noun.

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

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

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