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common noun
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common noun
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A noun, such as book or dog, that can be preceded by the definite article and that represents one or all of the members of a class.
common noun
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(Linguistics / Grammar) Grammar a noun that refers to each member of a whole class sharing the features connoted by the noun, as for example planet, orange, and drum Compare proper noun
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Noun1.common noun - a noun that denotes any or all members of a class
noun - a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
deverbal noun, verbal noun - a noun that is derived from a verb
adnoun - an adjective used as a noun; "`meek' in `blessed are the meek' is an adnoun"
proper name, proper noun - a noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized


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To play, call out common nouns ("armadillo") and proper nouns ("Michael Jordan") at random.
A noun is a word that names a person, animal, place, thing, or idea by Chanko, Pamela / Instructor (1990)
Meanwhile, in these United States where common nouns such as democracy and liberty have long known bumpersticker popularity, the notion of a black man or a woman becoming the President remains a joke/a dopey idea/a theoretical construct of small or no plausibility.
We are all refugees by Jordan, June / The Progressive
In one study, 12 right-handed men age 21 to 35 studied two lists of common nouns presented on a computer screen as they lay under a PET scanner.
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