Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A noun phrase, introduced as if the subject of a sentence, that is not actually used as such.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
Intentional use of such a construction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rhetoric
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History
From Latin nominativus (“nominative case”) + Latin pendens (“hanging, waiting”).
