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noun¹
- /naʊn/ UK, US
- /nɒ(ʊ)n/ Multicultural London English
- /nʌʊn/ Canada, dialectal
- [nəu̯n] Canada, dialectal
- /næʊn/ Australia
- [næɔ̯n] Australia
Rhymes with -aʊn
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen.
noun nouns
- A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English. Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.
- 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; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun. Q. What is a Noun? A. The Name of a Thing. Q. How many Sorts of Nouns are there? [...] A. A Noun Substantive, and a Noun Adjective.
- An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied. Nouns are the data; verbs are the data transformations, and therefore verbs represent much of the complexity of systems.
Similar: name, nameword, substantive noun, substantive, naming word, noun, noun substantive
verb nouns · nouning · nouned
- To convert a word to a noun. What is not clear is how the nouning of verbs supports Simon's assumed correspondence between mechanical designing and intentional human responses. Is it the very nouning of verbs which indicates that the above correspondence exists?
Noun²
proper noun
- A department of the West Region, Cameroon.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: terminology, name, surname, substantive, number, latter, behalf, nom, term, nun, tag, label, designation, appellative, moniker, identifier
noun
Similar: name, nameword, substantive noun, substantive, naming word, noun, noun substantive
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noun grammatical category (narrow sense)
| Español | nombre, nombre sustantivo, nombre substantivo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 명사 myeongsa |
| 日本語 | 名詞 meishi |
| 中文 | 名詞 /名词 míngcí |
| हिन्दी | संज्ञा saṅgyā |
| Kiswahili | nomino, jina |
| Português | substantivo |
| Français | nom, nom substantif, substantif |
| Deutsch | Dingwort, Gegenstandswort, Hauptnennwort, Hauptwort, Selbstwort, Substantiv |
| Italiano | sostantivo, nome sostantivo |
| Ελληνικά | ουσιαστικό ousiastikó |
| Română | substantiv |
| Русский | и́мя существи́тельное ímja suščestvítelʹnoje, существи́тельное suščestvítelʹnoje |
| Tiếng Việt | danh từ |
| العربية | اِسْم الذَّات ism aḏ-ḏāt, اِسْم ism |
| עברית | שֵׁם עֶצֶם shem étsem |
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title = {noun},
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