nominalize
English
Alternative forms
- nominalise (Non-Oxford British spelling)
Verb
nominalize (third-person singular simple present nominalizes, present participle nominalizing, simple past and past participle nominalized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (linguistics) To use as or change into a noun, usually by affixing a morpheme.
- 1960, Modern Language Association of America, Dwight le Merton Bollinger, Modern Spanish: A Project of The Modern Language Association, Harcourt, Brace, page 226
- 1983, Peter Achinstein, The Nature of Explanation, Oxford University Press US, page 199
- But, Dretske asks, what happens when we nominalize a propositional allomorph?
- (philosophy) To make nominalistic.
Related terms
Translations
to change into a noun — See also translations at substantivise
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