noun

noun  (noun)

n. Abbr. n.

1. The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive.

2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as neighbor, window, happiness, or negotiation.

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[Middle English, name, noun, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin nmen (translation of Greek onoma, name, noun); see n-men- in Indo-European roots.]

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noun

Noun

a word that refers to a person, place, or thing [Latin nomen name]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	noun - a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action content word, open-class word - a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned substantive - any word or group of words functioning as a noun noun - the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition collective noun - a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things mass noun - a noun that does not form plurals count noun - a noun that forms plurals generic noun - a noun that does not specify either masculine or feminine gender proper name, proper noun - a noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized common noun - a noun that denotes any or all members of a class
	2.	noun - the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition major form class - any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar noun - a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action declension - the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages

Translations

noun [naun] n → nombre m; sustantivo

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noun [naun] n → nom m

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noun [naun] n → Hauptwort nt, Substantiv nt

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noun [naun] n → nome m; sostantivo