substantif — meaning in English
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English meaning
- noun noun A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
- substantive adj Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
Senses
substantif is used for these senses in English:
- noun (grammar, narrowly) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
- substantival (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- substantive Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- substantive (chemistry, of a dye) Not needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
substantive — full definition
- adj Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- adj Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- adj Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- adj Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.