In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
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
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
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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