proper noun

English

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Noun

proper noun (plural proper nouns)

1. A noun denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, or other individual entity.

   Examples: Mike, United Nations

Usage notes

Main appendix: English proper nouns

In English, a proper noun normally is not preceded by an article or limiting modifier and is written with an initial capital letter.

Synonyms

• proper name

Antonyms

• common noun

Translations

The name of a particular person, place, organization or other individual entity

Amharic: የተፀውኦ ስም (am) (yätäTS'äwao sm) Armenian: հատուկ անուն (hy) (hatuk anun) Catalan: nom propi Chinese: Mandarin: 專有名詞 (cmn), 专有名词 (cmn) (zhuānyǒu míngcí), 固有名詞 (cmn), 固有名词 (cmn) (gùyǒu míngcí) Czech: vlastní jméno (cs) n. Danish: proprium (da), egennavn (da) Dutch: eigennaam (nl) m. Esperanto: propra nomo Faroese: sernavn (fo) n. Finnish: erisnimi (fi) French: nom propre (fr) German: Eigenname (de) m. Hungarian: tulajdonnév (hu) Icelandic: eiginnafn (is) n. Interlingua: nomine proprie Italian: nome proprio (it)

Japanese: 固有名詞 (ja) (koyūmeishi)(こゆうめいし) Korean: 고유명사 (ko) (goyumyeongsa) (固有名詞 (ko)) Latin: nōmen proprium (la) n. Macedonian: лична именка (mk) (líčna ímenka) f. Occitan: nom pròpri (oc) m. Old English: āgen nama (ang) m. Persian: اسم خاص (fa) Polish: nazwa własna (pl) f. Portuguese: substantivo próprio (pt) m. Romanian: nume propriu n., substantiv propriu n. Russian: имя собственное (ru) (ímja sóbstvennoje) n. Scottish Gaelic: ainmear sònrachaidh (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: властита именица (sh) (vlastita imenica) f. Latin: vlastita imenica (sh) f. Spanish: nombre propio (es) Swedish: egennamn (sv) Turkish: özel ad (tr), özel isim (tr)

See also

• Appendix:English proper nouns
• Appendix:Glossary#proper noun