Definition of Noun. Meaning of Noun. Synonyms of Noun

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Definition of Noun

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Noun Noun, n. [OF. noun, nun, num, non, nom, F. nom, fr. L. nomen name. See Name.] (Gram.) A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive. Note: By some grammarians the term noun is so used as to include adjectives, as being descriptive; but in general it is limited to substantives.

Meaning of Noun from wikipedia

- In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and...
- A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (Africa; Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common...
- than hinder easy comprehension. The use of the hyphen in English compound nouns and verbs has, in general, been steadily declining. Compounds that might...
- A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun...
- The Noun Project is a website that aggregates and catalogs symbols that are created and uploaded by graphic designers around the world. Based in Los Angeles...
- linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are ****igned to gender categories that are often not related...
- Adjectival noun may refer to: Adjectival noun (****anese), also called adjectival or na-adjective Noun adjunct, a noun that qualifies another noun, like college...
- Deverbal nouns are nouns that are derived from verbs or verb phrases. Verbal nouns and deverbal nouns are distinct syntactic word classes. Functionally...
- noun adjunct in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In grammar, a noun adjunct, attributive noun, qualifying noun, noun (pre)modifier, or apposite noun is...
- Bhojpuri nouns are a category of words in the Bhojpuri language. As in other Indo-Aryan languages, Bhojpuri nouns possess a gender, either masculine or...