noun

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. (archaic, broadly) 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.
3. An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

Verb

To convert a word to a noun.

Synonyms

substantive

name

noun substantive

naming word

𐑌𐐵𐑌

nominal

place

term

N

repute

denomination

first name

horse

🐴

monicker

appellation

verb

word

Translations

nom

substantif

Substantiv

zelfstandig naamwoord

sustantivo

sostantivo

nome

ουσιαστικό

substantivo

nombre

Hauptwort

substantiu

substantief

Nomen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/naʊn/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: noun

In summary

From Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen.

Sentences

Predicative adjectives are generally separated from the noun by a determiner .