ALL meanings of noun
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- noun noun (grammar) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English. 1
- noun noun any member of a class of words that can function as the main or only elements of subjects of verbs (A dog just barked), or of objects of verbs or prepositions (to send money from home), and that in English can take plural forms and possessive endings (Three of his buddies want to borrow John's laptop). Nouns are often described as referring to persons, places, things, states, or qualities, and the word noun is itself often used as an attributive modifier, as in noun compound; noun group. See also noun adjunct, noun clause, noun phrase. Synonyms: substantive, name. 1
- countable noun noun A noun is a word such as 'car', 'love', or 'Anne' which is used to refer to a person or thing. 0
- noun noun a word or group of words that refers to a person, place, or thing or any syntactically similar word 0
- noun noun (as modifier) 0
- noun noun any of a class of words naming or denoting a person, thing, place, action, quality, etc. (Ex.: woman, water, New York, talking, beauty) 0