Definition of verb Verb
/vɚˈb/ - [verb] - verb
We found 10 definitions of verb from 6 different sources.
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What does verb mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: verbs |
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| verb - the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence | ||
| major form class any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar | ||
| verb the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence | ||
| conjugation a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms | ||
| auxiliary verb a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with | ||
| infinitive the uninflected form of the verb | ||
| participial, participle a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses | ||
| phrasal verb an English verb followed by one or more particles where the combination behaves as a syntactic and semantic unit; "`turn out' is a phrasal verb in the question `how many turned out to vote?'" | ||
| transitive, transitive verb, transitive verb form a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical | ||
| verb - a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence | ||
| content word, open-class word a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned | ||
| verb the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence | ||
| reflexive verb a verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at the agent; "the sentence `he washed' has a reflexive verb"; "`perjure' is a reflexive verb because you cannot perjure anyone but yourself" | ||
| copula, copulative, linking verb an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence | ||
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Wiktionary 
- verb (Noun)
A word that indicates an action, event, or state. - verb (Verb)
To use any word that is not a verb especially a noun as if it were a verb. - verb (Verb)
To perform any action that is normally expressed by a verb.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- verb (n.)
A word; a vocable. - verb (n.)
A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action.
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verb
A word that indicates an action or state; it commonly serves as part of the predicate in a sentence.
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A verb is a kind of word (see part of speech) that usually tells about an action or a state and is the main part of a sentence. Every sentence has a verb. In English, verbs are the only kind of word that changes to show past or present tense.
Every language in the world has verbs, but they are not always used in the same ways. They also can have different properties in different languages. For example, in some other languages (e.g., Chinese & Indonesian) verbs do not change for past and present tense. This means the definition above only works well for English verbs.
There are sixteen verbs used in Basic English. They are: "be, do, have, come, go, see, seem, give, take, keep, make, put, send, say, let, get."
History of the word "verb".
The word "verb" originally comes from "*were-", a Proto-Indo-European word meaning "a word". It comes to English through the Latin "verbum" and the Old French "verbe".
Verb forms.
In English and many other languages, verbs change their form. This is called inflection. Most English verbs have six inflected forms (see the table), but "be" has eight different forms.
You should notice that some of the verb forms look the same. You can say they have the same shape. For example, the plain present and the plain form of "walk" have the same shape. The same is true for the past and the past participle. But these different forms can have different shapes in other verbs. For example, the plain present of "be" is usually "are" but the plain form is "be". A
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🔤- verb, noun, singular of verbs.
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