nounnoun [ C ]
uk/naʊn/us/naʊn/A2 a word that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance, or quality:
'Doctor', 'coal', and 'beauty' are all nouns.
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- An example of a countable noun is 'table', and an example of an uncountable noun is 'money'.
- In 'safety barrier', the noun 'safety' is being used as a modifier.
- In this dictionary the word 'noun' is represented by the letter n.
- Examples of proper nouns in English are Joseph, Vienna and the White House.
- 'Family' and 'flock' are examples of collective nouns.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: parts of speech
- abstract noun
- adjective
- adjunct
- adv
- article
- collective noun
- common noun
- conj
- conjunction
- connective
- definite article
- determiner
- indefinite article
- interjection
- n
- noun phrase
- part of speech
- prep
- preposition
- proper noun
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