noun

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /naʊn/
• (Southern American English): IPA^(key): /næːn/

• Audio (US-Inland North)

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• Rhymes: -aʊn

Noun

noun (plural nouns)

1. (grammar, sensu lato) A name of a thing. Either a noun substantive, which can stand alone and does not require another word to be joined with it to show its signification, or a noun adjective, which can not stand by itself, but requires to be joined with some other word, in order to make sense.
2. (grammar, sensu stricto) 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.

Usage notes

• (sensu stricto) 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”.

Synonyms

• name, nameword
• (sensu stricto) noun substantive, substantive

Hyponyms

• (sensu lato) noun substantive = substantive, noun adjective = adjective
• (sensu stricto) See also Wikisaurus:noun

Derived terms

terms derived from noun (noun)

abstract noun adjectival noun attributive noun collective noun common noun concrete noun count noun mass noun non-count noun

noun adjunct noun clause noun of assemblage noun of multitude noun phrase plural noun pronoun proper noun uncount noun

Related terms

• nominal

Translations

grammatical category (sensu lato)

• Afrikaans: naamwoord (af)
• Danish: navneord (da) n
• Dutch: naamwoord (nl) n
• German: Namenwort (de) n, Nennwort (de) n, Nomen (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ὄνομα n (ónoma)

• Latin: nomen (la) n

grammatical category (sensu stricto)

• Afrikaans: selfstandige naamwoord (af)
• Albanian: emër (sq)
• Amharic: ስም (səm)
• Arabic: اسم (ar) m (ism)

  Egyptian Arabic: اسم m (esm)

• Aragonese: sustantibo (an) m
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܫܡܐ m (šmā’)

  Hebrew: שמא m (šmā’)

• Armenian: գոյական (goyakan)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: sustantivu (ast)
• Aymara: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: isim (az), ad (az)
• Bashkir: исем (isem)
• Basque: izen
• Bavarian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: назоўнік (be) m (nazóŭnik)
• Bengali: বিশেষ্য (bisheshya)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: anv-kadarn (br)
• Bulgarian: съществително име n (sǎštestvítelno íme)
• Burmese: နာမ် (my) (nam)
• Buryat: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: substantiu (ca) m
• Cebuano: please add this translation if you can
• Chamorro: please add this translation if you can
• Chechen: цIердош (cIierdoš)
• Cherokee: ᏚᏙᎥᎢ (dudovi)
• Chichewa: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 名詞, 名词 (ming4 ci4)

  Mandarin: 名詞 (zh), 名词 (zh) (míngcí)

  Min Nan: 名詞 (zh-min-nan), 名词 (bêng-sû)

• Chuvash: япала ячĕ (japala jačĕ)
• Cornish: hanow m
• Corsican: please add this translation if you can
• Crimean Tatar: ad, isim
• Czech: podstatné jméno (cs) n, substantivum (cs) n
• Danish: hovedord (da) n, substantiv (da) n
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: zelfstandig naamwoord (nl) n, substantief (nl) n
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Erzya: лемвал (lemval)
• Esperanto: substantivo (eo)
• Estonian: nimisõna (et)
• Ewe: nuŋkɔ
• Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: navnorð
• Finnish: substantiivi (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
• French: nom (fr) m, substantif (fr) m
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: substantivo
• Georgian: არსებითი სახელი (ka) (arsebit’i saxeli), სახელი (saxeli)
• German: Dingwort (de) n, Gegenstandswort (de) n (ambiguous), Hauptwort (de) n, Substantiv (de) n

  German, Alemannic: Substantiv n

  German Low German: Substantiv (nds)

• Greek: ουσιαστικό (el) n (ousiastikó)
• Greenlandic: taggit
• Gujarati: સંજ્ઞા (san̄jña)
• Hausa: please add this translation if you can
• Hawaiian: haʻiinoa
• Hebrew: שֵׁם עֶצֶם (he) m (shem étsem)
• Hindi: संज्ञा m (sãṅgyā)
• Hungarian: főnév (hu)
• Icelandic: nafnorð (is) n (abbrev. “no.”)
• Ido: substantivo (io)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: kata benda (id), nomina (id)
• Interlingua: substantivo
• Interlingue: substantive, nómine
• Irish: ainmfhocal (ga) m

  Old Irish: ainmm n

• Italian: sostantivo (it) m, nome (it) m
• Japanese: 名詞 (ja) (めいし, meishí)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kannada: ನಾಮಪದ (kn) (nāmapada)
• Kashubian: jistnik (csb) m
• Kazakh: зат есім (zat esim)
• Khmer: នាម (km) (niem)
• Kinyarwanda: please add this translation if you can
• Kirundi: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 명사 (ko) (myeongsa) (名詞 (ko))

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ناو (ku)

• Kyrgyz: зат атооч (zat atooç)
• Lao: ຄຳນາມ (lo) (kham nām)
• Latin: (nomen (la) n) substantivum (la) n
• Latvian: lietvārds (lv) m, substantīvs m
• Limburgish: zèlfstenjig naamwaord n
• Lingala: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: daiktavardis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Substantiv n
• Macedonian: именка f (ímenka)
• Malay: kata nama
• Malayalam: നാമം (ml) (nāmaṃ)
• Maltese: nom (mt)
• Maori: kupuingoa
• Marathi: नाम (nām)
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: нэр үг (ner üg)
• Navajo: yízhí
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Newari: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Sami: substantiiva
• Norwegian: substantiv (no) n

  Nynorsk: substantiv (nn)

• Novial: substantive
• Occitan: nom (oc) m
• Okinawan: please add this translation if you can
• Old English: nama m
• Oriya: ବିଶେଷ୍ୟ (or)
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: اسم (fa) (esm)
• Polish: rzeczownik (pl) m
• Portuguese: substantivo (pt) m
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Quechua: sutirimana
• Romanian: substantiv (ro) n
• Russian: имя существительное (ru) n (ímja suščestvítelʹnoje), существительное (ru) n (suščestvítelʹnoje)
• Sanskrit: नामन् n (nā́man), नाम (nāma)
• Scots: noun
• Scottish Gaelic: ainmear m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: именица

  Roman: imenica (sh) f

• Sicilian: sustantivu (scn)
• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: නාම පදය (nāma padaya), නාමය (nāmaya)
• Slovak: podstatné meno (sk) n
• Slovene: samostalnik (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: substantiw m

  Upper Sorbian: substantiw m

• Spanish: sustantivo (es) m, substantivo (es) m, (Venezuela) nombre (es) m
• Sundanese: please add this translation if you can
• Swahili: nomino (sw), jina (sw)
• Swazi: libito (ss)
• Swedish: substantiv (sv) n, nomen (sv) n
• Tagalog: pangngalan (tl)
• Tajik: исм (tg) (ism), исм (tg) (ism)
• Tamil: பெயர்ச்சொல் (ta) (peyarccol)
• Tatar: исем (tt) (isem)
• Telugu: నామవాచకము (te) (nāmavācakamu)
• Thai: นาม (th) (naam), คำนาม (th) (khahm naam)
• Tibetan: མིང་ཚིག (ming tshig)
• Tok Pisin: nem bilong samting
• Turkish: isim (tr), ad (tr)
• Turkmen: at (tk)
• Ukrainian: іменник (uk) m (iménnyk)
• Urdu: اسم (ur) (ism), سنجنا m (sãṅgyā)
• Uzbek: ot (uz), ism (uz)
• Vietnamese: danh từ (vi) (名詞)
• Volapük: subsat (vo)
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: enw (cy) m
• West Frisian: haadwurd (fy) n
• Wolof: please add this translation if you can
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: סובסטאַנטיוו (yi) n (substantiv)
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can
• Zazaki: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: ibizo (zu) class 5/6

See also

• countable

Verb

noun (third-person singular simple present nouns, present participle nouning, simple past and past participle nouned)

1. (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.

Translations

convert into a noun

• Swedish: substantivera

Anagrams

• non-U

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• non

Etymology

Latin non.

Adverb

noun

1. (Mistralian) no

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Old French

Noun

noun m (oblique plural nouns, nominative singular nouns, nominative plural noun)

1. alternative form of num