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nominify

nominify verb: to convert into a noun.

Verb

nominify (third-person singular simple present nominifies, present participle nominifying, simple past and past participle nominified)

  1. To convert into a noun.
    • In English we tend to nominify— that is, to turn verbs and adjectives into nouns (the first version of this sentence began, "There is a tendency in English...").1969, Allan Danzig, Edith Schor, Thesis: Rhetoric of the Essay, page 310
    • I think Shakespeare verbified a great many nouns, and nominified (if that's a word!) quite a few verbs too.2002 January 3, Norm DePloom, “{ASSD} Pseudo-Victorian Porn & MS Word Don't Mix”, in alt.sex.stories.d (Usenet)

Forms of nominify

third-person singular presentnominifies
present participlenominifying
past participlenominified
pastnominified

Questions about nominify

What does nominify mean?
Nominify means to convert into a noun.
What part of speech is nominify?
Nominify is a verb.
What is the past tense of nominify?
The past tense of nominify is nominified.

Words near nominify in the dictionary

  1. nominee purchases
  2. nomineeism
  3. nominees
  4. nominified
  5. nominifies
  6. nominify
  7. nominifying
  8. nominine
  9. nomino-
  10. nominoaccusative
  11. nominor

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