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Definition of Nounal
1. a. Of or pertaining to a noun.
Definition of Nounal
1. Adjective. Of, relating to, or acting as a noun. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nounal
1. noun [adj] - See also: noun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nounal
Literary usage of Nounal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A High School Grammar: Dealing with the Science of the English Language, the by Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg (1900)
"For reasons given below, we call it a nounal Verb. DEFINITION. —A nounal Verb is
a form of the verb partaking of the nature of a noun, and expressing action ..."
2. Advanced Lessons in English by George Carter Howland (1908)
"nounal VERB PHRASES Study the following sentences:— Attempting to deceive ...
Point out all nounal verbs, all their modifiers, and all their complements. ..."
3. Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition : in by Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg (1902)
"But, if different names for words with an adjectival use and words with a nounal
b« preferred, the term Participle may be restricted to those of the first ..."
4. Anti-Tooke: Or An Analysis of the Principles and Structure of Language by John Fearn (1827)
"Considered, indeed, as a Field to be cultivated, or a Region to be explored ;
the nounal Department of Language, according to the views which I entertain ..."
5. The philology of the English tongue by John Earle (1880)
"For we must regard the verbs—always excepting the symbolic verbs, that is, verbs
which in whole or in part have shed their old nounal coat—simply as words ..."
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