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