Verbal Noun (definition)

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A verbal noun is a deverbal morpheme (a word that is not verb being derived from a verb) in which the resulting word is a noun (ex. The assassination, She loves singing).

References

Matthews, P. H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.