noun

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Synonyms 1.3.3 Hyponyms 1.3.4 Related terms 1.3.5 Translations

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /naʊn/, SAMPA: /naUn/
•  Audio (US-Inland North)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -aʊn

[edit] Noun

noun (plural nouns)

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

[edit] 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”.

[edit] Synonyms

• name
• substantive

[edit] Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:noun

[edit] Related terms

abstract noun adjectival noun attributive noun collective noun common noun concrete noun count noun countable noun

mass noun nominal non-count noun noun adjunct noun clause noun of assemblage noun of multitude

noun phrase plural noun pronoun proper noun uncountable noun

[edit] Translations