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NOUN PHRASE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
Synonyms:
nominal; nominal phrase; noun phrase
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("noun phrase" is a kind of...):
phrase (an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence)