any noun that is not the name of a specific person or thing. For example ‘woman’, ‘dog’, ‘mountain’, and ‘idea’ are common nouns, while ‘Sarah’, ‘Rover’, and ‘Mount Everest’ are proper nouns. The two types of common noun are concrete noun and abstract noun.
Synonyms and related words
Types and forms of nouns
ablative
abstract noun
collective noun
common noun
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Word Forms
singular
common noun
plural
common nouns
DEFINITIONS1
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any noun that is not the name of a specific person or thing. For example ‘woman’, ‘dog’, ‘mountain’, and ‘idea’ are common nouns, while ‘Sarah’, ‘Rover’, and ‘Mount Everest’ are proper nouns. The two types of common noun are ‘concrete noun’ and ‘abstract noun’.