noun phrase
Noun
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Noun
noun phrase (plural noun phrases)
- (grammar) A phrase that has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun.
- The term "restaurant supply service" is a noun phrase, as are "red blood cell" and "happy cat".
- Many collocations are noun phrases.
- French: groupe nominal, syntagme nominal
- German: Nominalphrase
- Italian: locuzione nominale
- Portuguese: locução substantiva, locução nominal
- Russian: именное словосочетание
- Spanish: sintagma nominal, grupo nominal
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