predicate noun: Meaning and Definition of

pred'icate noun'

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  1. a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
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