noun

English

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /naʊn/, X-SAMPA: /naUn/
• (Southern American English): IPA: /næːn/

• Audio (US-Inland North)

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• Rhymes: -aʊn

Noun

noun (plural nouns)

1. (grammar) 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.

Usage notes

• In English (and in many other languages), a noun can serve as the subject or object of a verb. For example, the English words table and computer are nouns. See Wikipedia’s article “Parts of speech”.

Synonyms

• name, nameword
• substantive

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:noun

Derived terms

terms derived from noun (noun)

abstract noun adjectival noun attributive noun collective noun common noun concrete noun count noun mass noun non-count noun

noun adjunct noun clause noun of assemblage noun of multitude noun phrase plural noun pronoun proper noun uncountable noun

Related terms

• nominal

Translations

grammatical category

• Afrikaans: selfstandige naamwoord (af)
• Albanian: emër (sq)
• Amharic: ስም (am) (sm)
• Arabic: اسم (ar) (ism) m
• Aragonese: sustantibo (an) m
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܫܡܐ (šmā’) m

  Hebrew: שמא (šmā’) m

• Armenian: գոյական (hy) (goyakan) 
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: sustantivu (ast)
• Aymara: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: isim (az), ad (az)
• Bashkir: исем (isem)
• Basque: izen (eu)
• Bavarian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: назоўнік (be) (nazóŭnik) m 
• Bengali: বিশেষ্য (bn) (bisheshya)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: anv-kadarn (br)
• Bulgarian: съществително име (bg) (sǎštestvítelno íme) n 
• Burmese: နာမ (my) (nan)
• Buryat: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: substantiu (ca) m
• Cebuano: please add this translation if you can
• Chamorro: please add this translation if you can
• Chechen: цIердош
• Cherokee: ᏚᏙᎥᎢ (chr) (dudovi)
• Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 名詞, 名词 (ming4 ci4)

  Mandarin: 名詞 (cmn), 名词 (cmn) (míngcí)

  Min Nan: 名詞 (nan), 名词 (nan) (bêng-sû)

• Chuvash: япала ячĕ
• Cornish: hanow (kw) m
• Corsican: please add this translation if you can
• Crimean Tatar: ad, isim
• Czech: podstatné jméno (cs) n, substantivum (cs) n
• Danish: navneord (da) n, substantiv (da) n
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: zelfstandig naamwoord (nl) n, substantief (nl) n
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: substantivo (eo)
• Estonian: nimisõna (et)
• Ewe: nuŋkɔ
• Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: navnorð (fo)
• Finnish: substantiivi (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
• French: nom (fr) m, substantif (fr) m
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: substantivo (gl)
• Georgian: არსებითი სახელი (ka) (arsebit‘i saxeli) , სახელი (ka) (saxeli) 
• German: Substantiv (de) n, Nomen (de) n, Dingwort (de) n, Gegenstandswort (de) n
• Greek: ουσιαστικό (el) (ousiastikó) n 

  Ancient Greek: ὄνομα (ónoma) n

• Greenlandic: taggit (kl)
• Gujarati: સંજ્ઞા (gu) (san̄jña)
• Hausa: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: haʻiinoa
• Hebrew: שם עצם (he) (shem étsem) m
• Hindi: संज्ञा (hi) (sãṅgyā) m
• Hungarian: főnév (hu)
• Icelandic: nafnorð (is) n (abbrev. “no.”)
• Ido: substantivo (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: kata benda (id), nomina (id)
• Interlingua: substantivo (ia)
• Interlingue: substantive (ie), nómine (ie)
• Irish: ainmfhocal (ga) m
• Italian: sostantivo (it) m, nome (it) m
• Japanese: 名詞 (ja) (めいし, meishí)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kannada: ನಾಮಪದ (kn) (nāmapada)
• Kashubian: jistnik (csb) m
• Kazakh: зат есім (kk) (zat esim) 
• Khmer: នាម (km) (niem)
• Kinyarwanda: please add this translation if you can
• Kirundi: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 명사 (ko) (myeongsa) (名詞 (ko))

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ناو (ku)

• Kyrgyz: зат атооч (ky) (zat atooç) 
• Lao: ຄຳນາມ (lo) (kʰám náːm)
• Latin: nomen (la) n
• Latvian: lietvārds (lv) m
• Limburgish: zèlfstenjig naamwaord (li) n
• Lingala: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: daiktavardis (lt)
• Low German:

  German Low German: Substantiv (nds-de)

• Lower Sorbian: substantiw m
• Luxembourgish: Substantiv (lb) n
• Macedonian: именка (mk) (ímenka) f
• Malay: kata nama (ms)
• Malayalam: നാമം (ml) (naamam)
• Maltese: nom (mt)
• Marathi: नाम (mr)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: нэр үг (mn) (ner üg) 
• Navajo: yízhí
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Newari: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Sami: substantiiva
• Norwegian: substantiv (no) n

  Nynorsk: substantiv (nn)

• Novial: substantive
• Occitan: nom (oc) m
• Okinawan: please add this translation if you can
• Old English: nama (ang) m
• Oriya: ବିଶେଷ୍ୟ (or)
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: اسم (fa) (esm)
• Polish: rzeczownik (pl) m
• Portuguese: substantivo (pt) m
• Quechua: sutirimana (qu)
• Romanian: substantiv (ro) n
• Russian: имя существительное (ru) (ímja suščestvítelʹnoje) n , существительное (ru) (suščestvítelʹnoje) n 
• Sanskrit: नामन् (sa) (nā́man) n, नाम (sa) (nāma)
• Scots: noun
• Scottish Gaelic: ainmear (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: именица (sh)

  Roman: imenica (sh) f

• Sicilian: sustantivu (scn)
• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: නාම පදය (si), නාමය (si) (nāmaya)
• Slovak: podstatné meno (sk) n
• Slovene: samostalnik (sl) m
• Spanish: sustantivo (es) m, substantivo (es) m, (Venezuela) nombre (es) m
• Sundanese: please add this translation if you can
• Swahili: nomino (sw)
• Swati: libito (ss)
• Swedish: substantiv (sv) n, nomen (sv) n
• Swiss German: Substantiv n
• Tagalog: pangngalan (tl)
• Tajik: исм (tg) (ism), исм (tg) (ism) 
• Tamil: பெயர்ச்சொல் (ta) (peyarchchol)
• Tatar: исем (tt) (isem)
• Telugu: నామవాచకము (te) (nAmavAchakamu)
• Thai: นาม (th) (naam), คำนาม (th) (khahm naam)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Tok Pisin: nem bilong samting (tpi)
• Turkish: isim (tr), ad (tr)
• Turkmen: at (tk)
• Ukrainian: іменник (uk) (iménnyk) m 
• Upper Sorbian: substantiw (hsb) m
• Urdu: اسم (ur) (ism), سنجنا (ur) (sãṅgyā) m
• Uzbek: ot (uz), ism (uz)
• Vietnamese: danh từ (vi) (名詞 (vi))
• Volapük: subsat (vo)
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: enw (cy)
• West Frisian: haadwurd (fy) n
• Wolof: please add this translation if you can
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: סובסטאנטיוו (yi) (substantiv) n
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
• Zazaki: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: ibizo (zu) 5/6

See also

• countable

Verb

noun (third-person singular simple present nouns, present participle nouning, simple past and past participle nouned)

1. (transitive) To convert a word to a noun.
   • 1992, Lewis Acrelius Froman, Language and Power: Books III, IV, and V

     For example, that females are different from but equal to males is oxymoronic by virtue of the nouned status of female and male as kinds of persons.

   • 2000, Andrew J. DuBrin, The complete idiot's guide to leadership

     However, too much nouning makes you sound bureaucratic, immature, and verbally challenged. Top executives convert far fewer nouns into verbs than do workers at lower levels.

Anagrams

• non-U

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• non

Etymology

Latin non.

Adverb

noun

1. (Mistralian) no

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Old French

Noun

noun m (oblique plural nouns, nominative singular nouns, nominative plural noun)

1. Alternative form of num.