(grammar) A noun used in the predicate of a sentence with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and that refers to the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb. For example "He is a fireman" or "They made him chief".

plural of predicate noun

(grammar) An adverbial that is congruent with the subject of the sentence, present for example in Finnish.

plural of predicate logic

plural of predicative adverbial

plural of predicative adjective

(logic) The fragment of predicate logic in which all predicate letters are monadic (that is, they take only one argument), and there are no function letters.

plural of compound predicate word

plural of monadic predicate logic

(linguistics) A word composed of two or more stems used as a predicate (word indicating sentence or predication is a statement that may be true or false). in English, it may or may not have a space or hyphen.