| 单词 | verbal noun |
| 释义 | verbal noun[ vur-buhl noun ] / ˈvɜr bəl ˈnaʊn / noun Grammar. 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 Eating is fun, or the infinitive form, as in To see is to believe. 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“). Origin of verbal nounFirst recorded in 1700–10 Words nearby verbal nounverbalism, verbalist, verbality, verbalize, verbally, verbal noun, verbascum, verbatim, verbatim et literatim, verbena, verbenaceous Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for verbal nounverbal noun nouna noun derived from a verb, such as smoking in the sentence smoking is bad for youSee also gerund Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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