Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

predicate noun

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English

Syllables: pred-i-cate -noun
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A noun used in the predicate of a sentence with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and that refers to the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb.

Example Sentences

"Harner pointed out that "Colwell was almost entirely concerned with the question whether anarthrous predicate nouns were definite or indefinite, and he did not discuss at any length the problem of their qualitative significance.""

Inflected Forms

predicate nouns (plural)

Questions

What does predicate noun mean?: A noun used in the predicate of a sentence with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and that refers to the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb.

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