noun meaning
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- A noun (Latin: nōmen, "name") is a word that functions as the name of some specific thing or set of things, such as living creatures, objects, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.
- Lexical categories (parts of speech) are defined in terms of the ways in which their members combine with other kinds of expressions. The syntactic rules for nouns differ from language to language.
- NounPLnouns
- (grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
- (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent.
- (grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
- VerbSGnounsPRnouningPT, PPnouned
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- A noun phrase is overspecified when it is used in a context where a pronoun would have been unambiguous.
- His repeated wagerings of his allowances led him to ruin. ( gerundial noun )
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- In English, the third person consists of pronouns such as he, she, it, and they, verbs such as is and has, and most nouns.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of noun in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary