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.

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)
• Bashkir: яңғыҙлыҡ исем (yaŋğïðlïq isem)
• 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
• Greek: κύριο όνομα (el) (kýrio ónoma) n
• 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)

• Jèrriais: nom propre m
• Khmer: អសាធារណនាម (km) (ak sathea raknak neam), នាមអសាធារណ៍ (km) (neam ak sathea)
• 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