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NOMINAL PHRASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nominal phrase mean? 

NOMINAL PHRASE (noun)
  The noun NOMINAL PHRASE has 1 sense:

1. a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verbplay

  Familiarity information: NOMINAL PHRASE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NOMINAL PHRASE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

nominal; nominal phrase; noun phrase

Hypernyms ("nominal phrase" is a kind of...):

phrase (an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence)


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