predicand
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
What a clausal predicate, predicative complement or adjunct relates to.
noun
The referent of the phrase of which another constituent (the predicate) is predicated.
Example Sentences
- "In, "downhearted, he left," the predicand for downhearted is the person denoted by he (cf. he was downhearted)."
- "For example, in They appear uneasy, the property of being uneasy is predicated of (the referent of) they, which is therefore the predicand."
Etymology
From predicate + -and.