noun

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.

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.

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

rzeczownik

ουσιαστικό

substantivo

nombre

Hauptwort

substantiu

substantief

Nomen

Sentences

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