noun
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(grammar) a word that names a person, place, thing or idea; a noun (sensu stricto)
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definition
Part of a text that carries the meaning, such as words and their ordering.
verb
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(grammar) to make a word belonging to another part of speech into a substantive (that is, a noun) or use it as a noun
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Examples of substantives in a Sentence
The verb "to drain," with its substantives "drain" and "drainage," represents the 0.
Adjectives follow their substantives.
By unity Boole denoted the universe of thinkable objects; literal symbols, such as x, y, z, v, u, &c., were used with the elective meaning attaching to common adjectives and substantives.
What has just been said as to the treatment of the final vowels in Catalan must be understood as applying only to pure Catalan, unaltered by the predominance of the Castilian, for the actual language is no longer faithful to the principle we have laid down; it allows the.final o atonic in a number of substantives and adjectives, and in the verb it now conjugates canto, temo, sentoa thing unknown in the ancient language.