noun
see also: Noun
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.
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noun (nouns, present participle nouning; simple past and past participle nouned)

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

Noun
Proper noun
  1. A department in West Region, Cameroon.



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