What does NOUN mean?

Definitions for NOUN
naʊnnoun

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word NOUN.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. nounnoun

    a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action

  2. nounnoun

    the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition

Wiktionary

  1. nounnoun

    A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

  2. nounverb

    To convert a word to a noun.

  3. Etymology: From noun, non, nom, from nomen.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Nounnoun

    The name of any thing in grammar.

    Etymology: nom, French; nomen, Latin.

    A noun is the name of a thing, whether substance, mode or relation, which in speech is used to signify the same when there is occasion to affirm or deny any thing about it, or to express any relation it has in discourse to any other thing. John Clarke, Lat. Grammar.

    Thou hast men about thee, that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no christian ear can endure to hear. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

    The boy, who scarce has paid his entrance down,
    To his proud pedant, or declin’d a noun. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. Noun

    A noun (from Latin nōmen 'name') is a word that generally functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.Lexical categories (parts of speech) are defined in terms of the ways in which their members combine with other kinds of expressions. The syntactic rules for nouns differ between languages. In English, nouns are those words which can occur with articles and attributive adjectives and can function as the head of a noun phrase. "As far as we know, every language makes a grammatical distinction that looks like a noun verb distinction."

ChatGPT

  1. noun

    A noun is a word that represents a person, place, thing, idea, quality, action or state. It's generally used in a sentence to name or identify something and can function as a subject, object, complement, or modifier. Nouns are one of the main parts of speech in English and many other languages.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Nounnoun

    a word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive

  2. Etymology: [OF. noun, nun, num, non, nom, F. nom, fr. L. nomen name. See Name.]

Wikidata

  1. Noun

    Nouns are a part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal or idea. In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. Lexical categories are defined in terms of the ways in which their members combine with other kinds of expressions. The syntactic rules for nouns differ from language to language. In English, nouns are those words which can occur with articles and attributive adjectives and can function as the head of a noun phrase.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Noun

    nown, n. (gram.) the name of any person or thing.—adj. Noun′al. [O. Fr. non (Fr. nom)—L. nomen, name.]

Editors Contribution

  1. noun

    A word to describe a person, place, quality, action or thing.

    Nouns are an element of grammar every day.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020  

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  1. NOUN

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. NOUN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Noun is ranked #55841 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Noun surname appeared 367 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Noun.

    68.1% or 250 total occurrences were Asian.
    26.7% or 98 total occurrences were White.
    2.4% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.4% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of NOUN in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of NOUN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of NOUN in a Sentence

  1. E. M. Walsh:

    Love is a verb, not a noun. It requires action; intention. In love, there is no being, only doing.

  2. Richard Buckminster Fuller:

    God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.

  3. Terrence Howard:

    Oh, it could mean love; sometimes it's a noun; sometimes it's a verb; sometimes it's an adjective; it's all, there's a spirit attached to it, you know, my dad uses it. My brothers use it. I use it. I'm sitting here, I'm hoping maybe I won't use it with my son, but I don't know if I'll be honest if I didn't use it with my son. You know, my friends use it. I call my white friends 'what's up, my n****?' You know, that's, it has taken on this term to us, but it's blown out of proportion outside the world, so I don't know.

  4. Stephen Nachmanovitch:

    The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

  5. Fran Lebowitz:

    Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

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