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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

noun [naun] n → nom m

noun [naun] n → Hauptwort nt, Substantiv nt

noun [naun] n → nome m; sostantivo

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noun

n noun [naun]

a word used as the name of a person, animal, place, state or thing The words `boy', `James' and `happiness' are all nouns. naamwoord إسْم същ. име podstatné jméno substantiv; navneord das Substantiv ουσιαστικό (γραμμ.) nombre, sustantivo nimisõna اسم substantiivi nom שֵם עֶצֶם संज्ञा imenica főnév kata benda nafnorð nome, sostantivo 名詞 명사 daiktavardis lietvārds kata nama zelfstandig naamwoord substantiv rzeczownik nome substantiv существительное podstatné meno samostalnik imenica substantiv นาม ad, isim 名詞 іменник اسم، اسم ذات danh từ 名词