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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
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: verb /vɜːb/ n - (in traditional grammar) any of a large class of words in a language that serve to indicate the occurrence or performance of an action, the existence of a state or condition, etc. In English, such words as run, make, do, and the like are verbs
- (in modern descriptive linguistic analysis) a word or group of words that functions as the predicate of a sentence or introduces the predicate
- (as modifier): a verb phrase
Abbreviation: vb Etymology: 14th Century: from Latin verbum a word |