noun

/naʊn/

(grammar)

(abbreviation n.)

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a word that refers to a person, (such as Ann or doctor), a place (such as Paris or city) or a thing, a quality or an activity (such as plant, joy or tennis)
- ‘Car’ is a concrete noun.
- Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
see also abstract noun, agent noun, collective noun, common noun, count noun, mass noun, proper noun, uncount noun
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Extra Examples
- ‘Flock’ is a collective noun.
- ‘Happiness’ is an abstract noun.
- ‘Sheep’ is both a singular and a plural noun.
- English nouns are not usually inflected.
- Most English plural nouns end in an ‘s’.
- Most feminine nouns in Polish end in the letter ‘a’.
- The noun is followed by an intransitive verb.
- a prepositional phrase qualifying a noun
- an adjective preceding the noun
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Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- plural
- singular
- countable
- …
verb + noun
- decline
- inflect
- modify
- …
noun + verb
- end in something
- follow something
- precede something
- …
noun + noun
- class
- phrase
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Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin nomen ‘name’.

单词	noun
释义	noun noun /naʊn/ /naʊn/ (grammar) (abbreviation n.) jump to other results a word that refers to a person, (such as Ann or doctor), a place (such as Paris or city) or a thing, a quality or an activity (such as plant, joy or tennis) ‘Car’ is a concrete noun. Proper nouns begin with a capital letter. see also abstract noun, agent noun, collective noun, common noun, count noun, mass noun, proper noun, uncount noun Wordfinder case conjugate gender grammar inflect noun part of speech singular subject tense Extra Examples ‘Flock’ is a collective noun. ‘Happiness’ is an abstract noun. ‘Sheep’ is both a singular and a plural noun. English nouns are not usually inflected. Most English plural nouns end in an ‘s’. Most feminine nouns in Polish end in the letter ‘a’. The noun is followed by an intransitive verb. a prepositional phrase qualifying a noun an adjective preceding the noun Topics Languagea1 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective plural singular countable … verb + noun decline inflect modify … noun + verb end in something follow something precede something … noun + noun class phrase See full entry Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin nomen ‘name’.
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