(noun.) any word or group of words functioning as a noun.
(adj.) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established; 'substantive law' .
校对:威拉德
双语例句
Perhaps his exalted appreciation of the merits of the old girl causes him usually to make the noun-substantive goodness of the feminine gender. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
The name of the Creditor is Riah,' said Mr Fledgeby, with a rather uncompromising accent on his noun-substantive. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
I stick at everything beyond a noun-substantive--and I stick at him, if he's at all a tight one. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.