noun

• A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun)

  ‘converting adjectives to nouns has always been common in English’

  More example sentences

  • ‘you must say el gato because gato, which means cat, is a masculine noun’
  • ‘lucidity is a noun’
  • ‘Many English words can be nouns or verbs, with the exact same English spelling.’
  • ‘These children were asked to explain the meaning of some common Dutch and Turkish nouns in an extended word definition task.’
  • ‘Of particular interest here is how the participants in the picture are referred to by the choice of pronouns or nouns.’
  • ‘In Swinburne's work as a whole many adjectives are used as nouns and many nouns as adjectives.’
  • ‘Our first observation is that ‘father’ is a noun, and a noun is a person, place, or thing.’