noun
/naʊn/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
Meaning
noun
A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
noun
Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
Archaic
noun
An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
name
A department of the West Region, Cameroon.
Example Sentences
- "Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed."
- "Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”"
- "Q. What is a Noun? A. The Name of a Thing. Q. How many Sorts of Nouns are there? [...] A. A Noun Substantive, and a Noun Adjective."
- "A Noun is a word which serves to name and distinguish some thing; [...]. There are two sorts of nouns; one is called a noun substantive, and the other a noun adjective."
- "The first part of a compound word is either a noun (substantive, adjective, or numeral), an adverb, or a preposition, and in a very few cases a verb."
- "Finally, there are many who limit the parts of speech to the noun, the verb, and the particle; referring to the first, the substantive, the adjective, and the pronoun (including the article), to the second the participle, to the third the remainder."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /naʊn/
- British English: /naʊn/