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Agent noun
In
linguistics
, an
agent noun
(in
Latin
,
nomen agentis
) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an
action
, and that identifies an entity
that does that action
. For example, "driver" is an agent noun formed from the
verb
"drive".
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