Noun
[naʊn]
Definition
(noun.) the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition.
(noun.) a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action.
Typed by Belinda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.
Typist: Robinson
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Substantive.
Checked by Bernadette
Definition
n. (gram.) the name of any person or thing.—adj. Noun′al.
Checker: Roland
Examples
- Perhaps his exalted appreciation of the merits of the old girl causes him usually to make the noun-substantive goodness of the feminine gender. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They held that there was something in a name, in a common noun that is, that was essentially real. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We are only too given to making an entity out of the abstract noun consciousness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The name of the Creditor is Riah,' said Mr Fledgeby, with a rather uncompromising accent on his noun-substantive. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I stick at everything beyond a noun-substantive--and I stick at him, if he's at all a tight one. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Probably the nouns were said in different intonations to convey different meanings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It reminded me of our old game of having each so many nouns to introduce into a sentence. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Edited by Ian