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

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 Brinton, Daniel Garrison

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 Brinton, Daniel Garrison

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

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

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

When a word in "-ing" is modified by "the" or some other adjective, it is an abstract verbal noun, and cannot have an object.

From Practical Exercises in English by Buehler, Huber Gray