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verbal nouns

verbal nouns is the plural of verbal noun.

Meaning of verbal noun

Noun

verbal noun (plural verbal nouns)

  1. A noun that is morphologically related to a verb and similar to it in meaning; in English, it contrasts with the gerund and the deverbal noun.

Questions about verbal nouns

What is verbal nouns the plural of?
Verbal nouns is the plural of verbal noun.

Words near verbal nouns in the dictionary

  1. verbal diarrhoea
  2. verbal humiliation
  3. verbal note
  4. verbal notes
  5. verbal noun
  6. verbal nouns
  7. verbal overshadowing
  8. verbal participle
  9. verbal participles
  10. verbal substantive
  11. verbal substantives

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