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adnoun|ˈædnaʊn|
[mod. f. L. ad to + noun, on the model of adverb. Also in mod.Fr. adnom, and mod.L. adnōmen; the cl. L. adnōmen, var. of agnōmen, had a different sense.]
A word added or joined to a noun substantive, an adjective; spec. used by some grammarians for an adjective used substantively.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Adnoun, Adnomen, or Adname, is used by some grammarians to express what we more usually call an adjective. a1834Coleridge Notes Theol. & Polit. 401 The modification of the noun by the verb is the Adnoun or Adjective. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxxvi. 415 The verb, says Elliot, is thus changed to an adnoun. |