What does NOUN mean?
Definitions for NOUN
naʊnnoun
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Princeton's WordNet
nounnoun
a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
nounnoun
the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition
Wiktionary
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.
nounverb
To convert a word to a noun.
Etymology: From noun, non, nom, from nomen.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
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
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
Nounnoun
a word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive
Etymology: [OF. noun, nun, num, non, nom, F. nom, fr. L. nomen name. See Name.]
Wikidata
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
Noun
nown, n. (gram.) the name of any person or thing.—adj. Noun′al. [O. Fr. non (Fr. nom)—L. nomen, name.]
Editors Contribution
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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NOUN
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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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Anagrams for NOUN »
non-U
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of NOUN in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of NOUN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of NOUN in a Sentence
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.
God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
Love is a verb, not a noun. It requires action; intention. In love, there is no being, only doing.
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.
National Republican Congressional Committee:
After last night’s pathetic interview by Danny O’Connor, Democrats ’ talking points disavowing Nancy Pelosi for speaker are as flimsy as the paper they’re written on, once you get them beyond a noun, a verb and' new leadership,' they fold like a cheap suit.
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- selfstandige naamwoordAfrikaans
- ስምAmharic
- sustantiboAragonese
- اسم, إسمArabic
- ad, isimAzerbaijani
- исемBashkir
- назоўнікBelarusian
- съществително имеBulgarian
- বিশেষ্যBengali
- མིང་ཚིགTibetan Standard
- anv-kadarnBreton
- substantiuCatalan, Valencian
- цIердошChechen
- substantivum, podstatné jménoCzech
- япала ячĕChuvash
- enwWelsh
- navneord, substantivDanish
- Gegenstandswort, Hauptwort, Nomen, Dingwort, SubstantivGerman
- nuŋkɔEwe
- ουσιαστικόGreek
- substantivoEsperanto
- nombre, sustantivo, substantivoSpanish
- nimisõnaEstonian
- izenBasque
- اسمPersian
- substantiiviFinnish
- navnorðFaroese
- nom, substantifFrench
- haadwurdWestern Frisian
- ainmfhocalIrish
- ainmearScottish Gaelic
- substantivoGalician
- સંજ્ઞાGujarati
- שֵׁם עֶצֶםHebrew
- संज्ञाHindi
- főnévHungarian
- գոյականArmenian
- substantivoInterlingua
- kata benda, nominaIndonesian
- substantive, nómineInterlingue
- substantivoIdo
- nafnorðIcelandic
- nome, sostantivoItalian
- 名詞Japanese
- არსებითი სახელი, სახელიGeorgian
- зат есімKazakh
- taggitKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- នាមKhmer
- ನಾಮಪದKannada
- 名詞, 명사Korean
- ناوKurdish
- hanowCornish
- зат атоочKyrgyz
- nomenLatin
- SubstantivLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- zèlfstenjig naamwaordLimburgish, Limburgan, Limburger
- ຄຳນາມLao
- daiktavardisLithuanian
- substantīvs, lietvārdsLatvian
- kupuingoaMāori
- именкаMacedonian
- നാമംMalayalam
- нэр үгMongolian
- नामMarathi
- kata namaMalay
- nomMaltese
- နာမ်Burmese
- substantief, zelfstandig naamwoordDutch
- substantivNorwegian Nynorsk
- substantivNorwegian
- yízhíNavajo, Navaho
- nomOccitan
- ବିଶେଷ୍ୟOriya
- rzeczownikPolish
- substantivoPortuguese
- sutirimanaQuechua
- substantivRomanian
- существительное, имя существительноеRussian
- नामन्, नामSanskrit
- substantiivaNorthern Sami
- именица, imenicaSerbo-Croatian
- නාමය, නාම පදයSinhala, Sinhalese
- podstatné menoSlovak
- samostalnikSlovene
- emërAlbanian
- libitoSwati
- nomen, substantiv, substantiveraSwedish
- nominoSwahili
- பெயர்ச்சொல்Tamil
- నామవాచకము, నామవాచకంTelugu
- исмTajik
- นาม, คำนามThai
- atTurkmen
- pangngalanTagalog
- isim, adTurkish
- исемTatar
- іменникUkrainian
- سنجنا, اسمUrdu
- ism, otUzbek
- danh từ, 名詞Vietnamese
- subsatVolapük
- סובסטאַנטיווYiddish
- 名词Chinese
- ibizoZulu
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