attributive noun
Noun
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Noun
attributive noun (plural attributive nouns)
- (grammar) A noun that modifies another noun attributively and that is optional (that is, it can be removed without affecting the grammar of the sentence); a noun used as an adjective.
- For example, in the compound noun "chicken soup", the attributive noun "chicken" modifies the noun "soup".
- (grammar, when referring to a language other than English) A noun denoting bearer of a quality or an attribute of a subject, in reference to the lexical morpheme from which it is derived.
- (noun used as an adjective) noun adjunct
- noun modifier
- (noun denoting bearer of a quality) nomen attributivum
- French: nom épithète
- Russian: определи́тельное существи́тельное
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