Usually means: Noun form of a verb.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word gerund:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. gerund: Merriam-Webster
  2. gerund: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gerund: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gerund: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gerund: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gerund, gerund: Wordnik
  7. gerund: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gerund: Wiktionary
  9. gerund: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gerund: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gerund: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gerund: Dictionary.com
  13. gerund: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gerund: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gerund: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gerund: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gerund: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gerund: Rhymezone
  19. Gerund: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gerund: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gerund: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. gerund: FreeDictionary.org
  23. gerund: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. gerund: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. gerund: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Gerund: Lexicon of Linguistics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gerund: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some modern texts such as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language)
noun:  (grammar) In some languages such as Dutch, Italian or Russian, a verbal form similar to a present participle, but functioning as an adverb to form adverbial phrases or continuous tense. These constructions have various names besides gerund, depending on the language, such as conjunctive participles, active participles, adverbial participles, transgressives, etc.

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