| 单词 | noun |
| 释义 | noun (once / 714 pages) n A noun is a part of speech that serves as a subject or object. More generally, we think of a noun as a person, place, thing, quality, or action. The word noun is noun, since a word is a thing. Tricky examples of nouns include gerunds: studying looks like a verb (and it is when you say "I'm studying for a test") but it's often a noun instead, as when you say, "Studying is very important." Sometimes a noun is missing but implied: When you tell your friend to "Go jump in a lake," the noun is you, as in "Hey, you, go jump in a lake." WORD FAMILYnoun: nouns USAGE EXAMPLESComeback: noun, return to big-screen acclaim in unlikely project for vilified Aussie. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) DEPLORABLE: Thank you, Hillary Clinton and your basket full of, though it’s not technically a noun. Seattle Times(Dec 18, 2016) It was only a singular noun, from a past participle in French, meaning “chosen”; from the same root as “to elect”. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) 1n a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action Hypo|Hyper collective noun a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things mass nouna noun that does not form plurals count nouna noun that forms plurals generic nouna noun that does not specify either masculine or feminine gender proper name, proper nouna noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized common nouna noun that denotes any or all members of a class deverbal noun, verbal nouna noun that is derived from a verb adnounan adjective used as a noun content word, open-class word a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned substantiveany word or group of words functioning as a noun 2n the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition Hyper major form class any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar |
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