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Verb

/vɜːb/

(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.

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📖 Definitions of "Verb"

noun

1
(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state.
"The word “speak” is an English verb."
2
Any word; a vocable.
3
An action as opposed to a trait or thing.
"Kindness is a verb, not an adjective. You're only kind if you do kind things."
4
A named command that performs a specific operation on an object.

verb

1
To use any word that is not, or had not been a verb (especially a noun) as if it were a verb.
2
(used as a neutral, unspecific verb) To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Verb"

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
wordingnoun	A choice of words and the style in which they are used in a given context.
expressionnoun	The action of expressing thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc.
wordnoun	(semantics) The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
reactionnoun	An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event.
figurenoun	A drawing or diagram conveying information.
termnoun	That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
wordsnoun	Lyrics.
sneezingnoun	The act of producing a sneeze.
sneezenoun	An act of sneezing.
actnoun	(countable) An instance of a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the American College Test.
oralnoun	(countable) A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
infinitivenoun	(grammar) A non-finite verb form considered neutral with respect to inflection; depending on language variously found used with auxiliary verbs, in subordinate clauses, or acting as a gerund, and often as the dictionary form.
predicatenoun	(grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
predicatornoun	That which predicates; that designates a property or relationship
auxiliarynoun	Helping; giving assistance or support.
copulanoun	(linguistics, grammar) A word, usually a verb, used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (usually a subject complement or an adverbial), that unites or associates the subject with the predicate.
finitenoun	Having an end or limit; (of a quantity) constrained by bounds; (of a set) whose number of elements is a natural number.
verbalnoun	Of or relating to words.
participlenoun	(grammar) A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.
gerundnoun	(grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some modern texts such as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language)