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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

ver′bal noun′(n.)

  1. a noun derived from a verb, esp. by a regular process, as the -ing form in

    Smoking is forbidden.

    Category: Grammar

Origin of verbal noun:

1700–10

Princeton's WordNet

  1. verbal noun, deverbal noun(noun)

    a noun that is derived from a verb

Wiktionary

  1. verbal noun(Noun)

    A noun that is morphologically related to a verb and similar to it in meaning; in English, this might be a gerund (ending in -ing), infinitive, or other noun derived from a verb.

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