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nominalise

nominalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nominalize.

Meaning of nominalize

Verb

nominalize (third-person singular simple present nominalizes, present participle nominalizing, simple past and past participle nominalized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To use as or change into a noun, often by affixing a morpheme.
    • To nominalize an adjective that refers to a known noun, the articles el, la, los, and las are used (Unit 11 §59); to nominalize an adjective that does not refer to a known noun, the neuter article lo is used.1960, Modern Language Association of America, Dwight le Merton Bollinger, Modern Spanish: A Project of The Modern Language Association, Harcourt, Brace, page 226
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US) To make nominalistic.

Forms of nominalise

third-person singular presentnominalises
present participlenominalising
past participlenominalised
pastnominalised

Origin of nominalise

From nominal + -ise.

Questions about nominalise

What is nominalise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Nominalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of nominalize.

Words near nominalise in the dictionary

  1. nominal value
  2. nominal variable
  3. nominal variables
  4. nominalisation
  5. nominalisations
  6. nominalise
  7. nominalised
  8. nominaliser
  9. nominalisers
  10. nominalises
  11. nominalising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nominalise (page history and authors); nominalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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