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Definition of noun noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

noun

noun
 
/naʊn/
 
/naʊn/
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(abbreviation n.)
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  1. 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.
    see also abstract noun, agent noun, collective noun, common noun, count noun, mass noun, proper noun, uncount noun
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    • ‘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
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    • plural
    • singular
    • countable
    • …
    verb + noun
    • decline
    • inflect
    • modify
    • …
    noun + verb
    • end in something
    • follow something
    • precede something
    • …
    noun + noun
    • class
    • phrase
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin nomen ‘name’.
See noun in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee noun in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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