PATIENT ROLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does patient role mean? 

• PATIENT ROLE (noun)
  The noun PATIENT ROLE has 1 sense:

1. the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

  Familiarity information: PATIENT ROLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATIENT ROLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

affected role; patient; patient role

Hypernyms ("patient role" is a kind of...):

participant role; semantic role ((linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause)