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

In some verbs the root itself, without any addition, is the verbal noun.

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

As a verbal noun the Gerund admits noun constructions as follows:— 1.

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett

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 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

Verb-radicals are formed principally from two parts of the verb,—the first person singular of the present indicative, and a part called the supine, which is a verbal noun corresponding to the English infinitive in -ing.

From New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words by William Swinton