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noun phrase
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noun phrase
n. Abbr. NP
A phrase whose head is a noun, as our favorite restaurant.
noun phrase
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(Linguistics / Grammar) Grammar a constituent of a sentence that consists of a noun and any modifiers it may have, a noun clause, or a word, such as a pronoun, that takes the place of a noun Abbreviation NP
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Noun1.noun phrase - a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
nominal, nominal phrase
phrase - an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
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