noun
see also: Noun
Etymology
Noun
Proper noun
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see also: Noun
Etymology
From Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman nom, from Latin nōmen.
Pronunciation Nounnoun (plural nouns)
- (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.
- (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.
- (computing) An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
- name, nameword
- (sensu stricto) noun substantive, substantive noun, substantive, naming word
- 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
- French: nom
- German: Namenwort, Nennwort, Nomen
- Italian: nome
- Portuguese: nome
- Russian: и́мя
- Spanish: nombre
noun (nouns, present participle nouning; simple past and past participle nouned)
- (transitive) To convert a word to a noun.
Noun
Proper noun
- A department in West Region, Cameroon.
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