Usually means: Statement about the subject's property.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. predicate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. predicate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. predicate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. predicate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. predicate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Predicate, predicate: Wordnik
  7. predicate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. predicate: Wiktionary
  9. predicate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. predicate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. predicate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. predicate: Dictionary.com
  13. predicate (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. predicate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Predicate (disambiguation), Predicate (grammar), Predicate (logic), Predicate (mathematical logic), Predicate (mathematics), Predicate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Predicate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. predicate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. predicate: Rhymezone
  19. Predicate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. predicate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. predicate: Free Dictionary
  22. predicate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. predicate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Predicate: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Predicate: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. predicate: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. predicate: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. predicate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. predicate: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Predicate: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. predicate, predicate: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  2. predicate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See predicated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
noun:  (logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
noun:  (computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.
adjective:  (grammar) Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
adjective:  Predicated, stated.
adjective:  (law) Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.
verb:  (transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
verb:  (transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
verb:  (transitive, originally US) to base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
verb:  (transitive, grammar) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
verb:  (transitive, logic) To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.

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