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Pronominal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, relating to, or functioning as a pronoun.

adj. Resembling a pronoun, as by specifying a person, place, or thing, while functioning primarily as another part of speech. His in his choice is a pronominal adjective.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or functioning as of a pronoun.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Belonging to, or partaking of the nature of, a pronoun.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Belonging to or of the nature of a pronoun: as, a pronominal root.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a phrase that functions as a pronoun

adj. relating to pronouns

Word Usage

"But we are chiefly concerned with what may be called pronominal variation, in which the word avoided is either a noun or its obvious pronoun substitute."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

phrase

Form

pronominal verb

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

participial adjectival distributive possessive allcommon genitive on-link commutative declinable misplaced