noun
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[edit] Etymology
From Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name”).
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[edit] Noun
noun (plural nouns)
- (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.
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- 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”.
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- See also Wikisaurus:noun
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terms derived from noun (noun)
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[edit] Verb
noun (third-person singular simple present nouns, present participle nouning, simple past and past participle nouned)
- (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.
- 1992, Lewis Acrelius Froman, Language and Power: Books III, IV, and V
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noun m. (oblique plural nouns, nominative singular nouns, nominative plural noun)
- Alternative form of num.
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Latin non.
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noun
- (Mistralian) no
