noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naʊn/
ipa: /næːn/
ipa: /nʌʊn/
ipa: [nəu̯n]
ipa: /næʊn/
ipa: [næɔ̯n]
rhymes: -aʊn
Forms: form: nouns
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.
ref: 2011 September 1, Harry Pearson, “London 2012 can legacy by verbing the noun”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024:
text: Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”
ref: 2019 September 24, Jessie Yeung, quoting Pope Francis, “Pope Francis loves nouns but is ‘allergic’ to adjectives”, in CNN, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2019:
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qualifier: strictly
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1753, Thomas Martin, An Explanation of the Accidence and Grammar To the End of the Syntax in which The Grounds of each Rule in the Syntax are laid down in the plainest Manner. Compiled By way of Question and Answer, For the Use of Schools., London, page 1:
text: A Noun is a word which serves to name and distinguish some thing; [...]. There are two sorts of nouns; one is called a noun substantive, and the other a noun adjective.
ref: 1786, Signor Veneroni, The Complete Italian Master; Containing The best and easiest Rules for attaining that Language, London, page 6:
text: The first part of a compound word is either a noun (substantive, adjective, or numeral), an adverb, or a preposition, and in a very few cases a verb.
ref: 1852, Leonhard Schmitz, Elementary Latin grammar, Edinburgh, page 123:
text: Finally, there are many who limit the parts of speech to the noun, the verb, and the particle; referring to the first, the substantive, the adjective, and the pronoun (including the article), to the second the participle, to the third the remainder.
ref: 1856, R. G. Latham, Logic in its application to language, London, page 224:
text: Greek has the following parts of speech: substantives, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and particles. In this Grammar noun is used to include both the substantive and the adjective.
ref: 1956, Herbert Weir Smyth, Gordon M. Messing, “189. Parts of Speech”, in Greek Grammar, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, page 44:
text: The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]
ref: 1894, B. L. Gildersleeve, G. Lodge, Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar, Dover, published 2008, page 9:
text: The parts of which the sentence may consist are either inflected words: the noun (substantive and adjective) and the verb, the participle which shares the nature of both, and the pronoun; or uninflected words: prepositions, adverbs, and conjunctions.
ref: 1993, Arthur Anthony Macdonell, A Vedic Grammar For Students, 1st Indian edition, Delhi, page 283:
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glosses: 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.
examples: text: Nouns are the data; verbs are the data transformations, and therefore verbs represent much of the complexity of systems.
ref: 1992, Brad A. Myers, David C. Smith, Bruce Horn, chapter 19, in Languages for Developing User Interfaces:
text: You choose either (1) the verb (change font) first and then select the noun (the paragraph) to which the verb should apply or (2) the noun first and then apply the verb.
ref: 2000, Jeff Raskin, The Humane Interface, page 59:
text: Thus, in essence, the mouse provides a capability for picking among a set of nouns (for instance, the file to which to apply some action) and verbs (such as "edit" or "insert")
ref: 2005, Barbara J. Grosz, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 149, number 4:
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glosses: An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
Synonyms: word: name
word: nameword
sense: sensu stricto
word: noun substantive
word: substantive noun
word: substantive
word: naming word
word: noun
Hypernyms: word: part of speech
word: word
Hyponyms: word: abstract noun
word: adjectival noun
word: appellative noun
word: attributive noun
word: collective noun
word: common noun
word: common substantive noun
word: concrete noun
word: countable noun
word: count noun
word: deverbal noun
word: governed noun
word: governing noun
word: mass noun
word: non-count noun
word: noun of assemblage
word: noun of multitude
word: noun of number
word: numeral noun
word: plural noun
word: proper noun
word: tool noun
word: uncountable noun
word: uncount noun
word: material noun
word: action noun
word: agent noun
word: diminutive
word: nomen acti
word: nomen instrumenti
word: nomen loci
word: nomen patientis
word: nomen rectum
word: nomen regens
word: nomen vicis
word: numerical noun
word: verbal noun
Derived terms: sense: some may also be hyponyms and should be placed in above section
word: action noun
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word: adnoun
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word: agent noun
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word: bare noun
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word: binary noun
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word: bloody noun
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word: improper noun
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word: invariant noun
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word: material noun
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word: noncount noun
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word: noun adjunct
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word: nounal
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word: noun class
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word: noun clause
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word: nounhood
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word: nounification
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word: nounize
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word: nounless
sense: some may also be hyponyms and should be placed in above section
word: nounlike
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word: noun modifier
sense: some may also be hyponyms and should be placed in above section
word: nounness
sense: some may also be hyponyms and should be placed in above section
word: noun numeral
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word: noun of place
sense: some may also be hyponyms and should be placed in above section
word: noun phrase
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word: noun-self pronoun
sense: some may also be hyponyms and should be placed in above section
word: nounself pronoun
sense: some may also be hyponyms and should be placed in above section
word: nounship
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word: noun substantive proper
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word: nouny
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word: numerical noun
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word: phrasal noun
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word: post-noun
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word: postnoun
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word: predicate noun
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word: prenoun
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word: pronoun
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word: result noun
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word: root-noun
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word: root noun
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word: verbal noun
Related terms: word: nominal
word: countable
word: cat
word: mountain
word: plant
word: Peter
word: London
word: Newton
word: dog
word: hill
word: tree
word: water
word: gold
word: information
word: herd
word: litter
word: audience
word: creation
word: massage
word: perusal
word: doer
word: identifier
word: swimmer