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Nouns are words that indicate a person, place, or thing.
In a sentence, nouns can function as the subject or the object of a verb. Nouns can also follow linking verbs to rename or re-identify the subject of a sentence or clause; these are known as predicate nouns.
noun
(noun)n. Abbr. n.
1. The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive.
2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as neighbor, window, happiness, or negotiation.
[Middle English, name, noun, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin nōmen (translation of Greek onoma, name, noun); see nō̆-men- in Indo-European roots.]
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noun
(naʊn)n
(Grammar)
a. a word or group of words that refers to a person, place, or thing or any syntactically similar word
b. (as modifier): a noun phrase.
[C14: via Anglo-French from Latin nōmen name]
ˈnounal adj
ˈnounally adv
ˈnounless adj
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noun
(naʊn)n.
a member of a class of words that can function as the subject or object in a construction, are often formally distinguished, as by taking the plural and possessive endings, and typically refer to persons, places, animals, things, states, or qualities, as cat, desk, Ohio, darkness.
[1350–1400; Middle English nowne < Anglo-French noun < Latin nōmen name]
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noun
A word that gives a name to a thing or person and can be the subject or object of a verb.
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| Noun | 1. | noun - a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action content word, open-class word - a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned substantive - any word or group of words functioning as a noun noun - the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition collective noun - a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things mass noun - a noun that does not form plurals count noun - a noun that forms plurals generic noun - a noun that does not specify either masculine or feminine gender proper name, proper noun - a noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized common noun - a noun that denotes any or all members of a class |
| 2. | noun - the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition major form class - any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar noun - a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action declension - the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages |
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noun
nounRelated words
adjective nominal
adjective nominal
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Translations
byvoeglike naamwoord
إسْماسماسْمٌ
съществително име
substantiu
podstatné jménosubstantivum
navneordsubstantiv
substantivo
nimisõna
اسم
substantiivi
שם־עצם
संज्ञा
imenicaनामन्
fõnévfőnév
substantivo
kata benda
nafnorðnafnorî
名詞
명사
nomen
daiktavardis
lietvārds
നാമം
zelfstandig naamwoordzèlfstenjig naamwaordsubstantief
substantiv
podstatné meno
samostalnik
imenicaименица
substantivnomen
คำนามนาม
іменник
danh từ
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noun
n → Substantiv(um) nt, → Hauptwort nt; abstract noun → Abstraktum nt; collective noun → Sammelbegriff m; common noun → Gattungsname or -begriff m; proper noun → Name m; noun group or phrase → Nominalphrase f
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noun
(naun) noun a word used as the name of a person, animal, place, state or thing. The words `boy', `James' and `happiness' are all nouns.
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noun
→ اسْمٌ podstatné jméno navneord Hauptwort ουσιαστικό sustantivo substantiivi nom imenica sostantivo 名詞 명사 zelfstandig naamwoord substantiv rzeczownik substantivo существительное substantiv คำนาม ad danh từ 名词Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
noun
n. nombre, sustantivo.
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