noun

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see also: Noun

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Etymology

From Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman nom, from Latin nōmen.

Pronunciation

• (British, America) IPA: /naʊn/
• (MLE) IPA: /næːn/

Noun

noun (plural nouns)

1. (grammar, narrowly) 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.
2. (grammar, now, rare, loosely) 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.
3. (computing) An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

Synonyms

• name, nameword
• (sensu stricto) noun substantive, substantive noun, substantive, naming word

Related terms

• nominal

Translations

• French: nom, nom substantif, substantif
• German: Dingwort, Gegenstandswort (ambiguous), Hauptnennwort, Hauptwort, Selbstwort, Substantiv, Substantivum
• Italian: sostantivo, nome sostantivo
• Portuguese: substantivo
• Russian: и́мя существи́тельное
• Spanish: sustantivo, nombre substantivo, nombre sustantivo, substantivo, (Venezuela) nombre

Translations

• French: nom
• German: Namenwort, Nennwort, Nomen
• Italian: nome
• Portuguese: nome
• Russian: и́мя
• Spanish: nombre

Verb

noun (nouns, present participle nouning; simple past and past participle nouned)

1. (transitive) To convert a word to a noun.

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Noun

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Proper noun

1. A department in West Region, Cameroon.

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