temporal role

1. 1.

   the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb

   Synonymstemporal

   Broadersemantic role

Questions about temporal role

What does temporal role mean?

temporal role means "the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb".

What is another word for temporal role?

Close synonyms include temporal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is temporal role a common word?

temporal role is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.