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–noun

any member of a class of words that are formally distinguished in many languages, as in English by taking the past ending in -ed, that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that (when inflected) may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME verbe < L verbum word

]

—Related forms

verbless, adjective

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verb Audio Help (vûrb) Pronunciation Key
n.

Abbr. V or vb.
1. The part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence in most languages.
2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, as be, run, or conceive.
A phrase or other construction used as a verb.

[Middle English verbe, from Old French, from Latin verbum, word, verb (translation of Greek rhēma, word, verb); see wer-⁵ in Indo-European roots.]

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1388, from O.Fr. verbe "part of speech that expresses action or being," from L. verbum "verb," originally "a word," from PIE base *were- (cf. Avestan urvata- "command;" Skt. vrata- "command, vow;" Gk. rhetor "public speaker," rhetra "agreement, covenant," eirein "to speak, say;" Hittite weriga- "call, summon;" Lith. vardas "name;" Goth. waurd, O.E. word "word").

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verb
noun
1.	the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence
2.	a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence

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verb [vəːb] noun

the word or phrase that gives the action, or asserts something, in a sentence, clause etc
Example: I saw him; He ran away from me; I have a feeling; What is this?

Arabic:	فِعْل
Chinese (Simplified):	动间
Chinese (Traditional):	動間
Czech:	sloveso
Danish:	verbum; udsagnsord
Dutch:	werkwoord
Estonian:	tegusõna
Finnish:	\|*verb\|i
French:	verbe
German:	das Verb
Greek:	ρήμα (γραμμ.)
Hungarian:	ige
Icelandic:	sögn, sagnorð
Indonesian:	kata kerja, verba
Italian:	verbo

Japanese:	動詞
Korean:	동사
Latvian:	darbības vārds
Lithuanian:	veiksmažodis
Norwegian:	verb
Polish:	czasownik
Portuguese (Brazil):	verbo
Portuguese (Portugal):	verbo
Romanian:	verb
Russian:	глагол
Slovak:	sloveso
Slovenian:	glagol
Spanish:	verbo
Turkish:	fiil

See also: verbal, verbally, verbatim, verbose

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
verb

A word that represents an action or a state of being. Go, strike, travel, and exist are examples of verbs. A verb is the essential part of the predicate of a sentence. The grammatical forms of verbs include number, person, and tense. (See auxiliary verb, infinitive, intransitive verb, irregular verb, participle, regular verb, and transitive verb.)

[Chapter:] Conventions of Written English

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Verb

Prov"erb\, n. [OE. proverbe, F. proverbe, from L. proverbium; pro before, for + verbum a word. See Verb.]

1. An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage. --Chaucer. Bacon.

2. A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.

His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. --John xvi. 29.

3. A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.

Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by word, among all nations. --Deut. xxviii. 37.

4. A drama exemplifying a proverb.

Book of Proverbs, a canonical book of the Old Testament, containing a great variety of wise maxims.

Syn: Maxim; aphorism; apothegm; adage; saw.

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