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Definition of substantive noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

substantive

noun
 
/səbˈstæntɪv/,
 
/ˈsʌbstəntɪv/
 
/ˈsʌbstəntɪv/
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  1. a noun
    Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘having an independent existence’): from Old French substantif, -ive or late Latin substantivus, from substantia ‘essence’, from substant- ‘standing firm’, from the verb substare.
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