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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024verb /vɜrb/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Grammara member of a class of words that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things and are often formally distinguished, as by being marked for tense, aspect, voice, mood, or agreement with the subject or object. Abbr.: v.
See -verb-.-verb-, root. - -verb- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "word.'' This meaning is found in such words as: adverb, adverbial, proverb, proverbial, verb, verbal, verbalize, verbatim, verbiage, verbose.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024verb (vûrb),USA pronunciation n. - Grammarany member of a class of words that are formally distinguished in many languages, as in English by taking the past ending in -ed, that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that (when inflected) may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.
- Latin verbum word
- Middle English verbe 1350–1400
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