NOUN

noun

(noun) the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition

noun

(noun) a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

noun (plural nouns)

(grammar, narrow sense) 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.

(grammar, now rare, broad sense) 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.

Usage notes

• (narrow sense) 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 noun, substantive, naming word

Hyponyms

• abstract noun

• adjectival noun

• appellative noun

• attributive noun

• collective noun

• common noun

• concrete noun

• count noun

• mass noun

• noun of assemblage

• noun of multitude

• noun of number

• numeral noun

• non-count noun

• plural noun

• proper noun

• tool noun

• uncount noun

• See noun

Verb

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

(transitive) To convert a word to a noun.

Anagrams

• non-U

Source: Wiktionary

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Noun, n. Etym: [OF. noun, nun, num, non, nom, F. nom, fr. L. nomen name. See Name.] (Gram.)

Definition: A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.

Note: By some grammarians the term noun is so used as to include adjectives, as being descriptive; but in general it is limited to substantives.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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