noun
noun/naʊn/
/naʊn/
(grammar) (abbreviation n.)
- a word that refers to a person (such as Ann or doctor), a place (such as Paris or city) or a thing, a quality or an activity (such as plant, joy or tennis)
- ‘Car’ is a concrete noun.
- Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
Extra ExamplesTopics Languagea1- ‘Flock’ is a collective noun.
- ‘Happiness’ is an abstract noun.
- ‘Sheep’ is both a singular and a plural noun.
- English nouns are not usually inflected.
- Most English plural nouns end in an ‘s’.
- Most feminine nouns in Polish end in the letter ‘a’.
- The noun is followed by an intransitive verb.
- a prepositional phrase qualifying a noun
- an adjective preceding the noun
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- plural
- singular
- countable
- …
- decline
- inflect
- modify
- …
- end in something
- follow something
- precede something
- …
- class
- phrase
Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin nomen ‘name’.Want to learn more?
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