noun

CEFRA2

/naʊn/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

Examples

  • '-osity' is an abstract noun word ending created from the ending of an '-ous' adjective.

  • This type of noun phrase is called a "concealed question".

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [nəu̯n]
  • /nɒ(ʊ)n/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech...

  2. A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

  3. Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.

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In context

  • Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.

  • Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”

  • Nouns are the data; verbs are the data transformations, and therefore verbs represent much of the complexity of systems.

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

In the sentence, 'The cat sat on the mat,' the word 'cat' is a blank.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Anglo-Norman noun, non, nombor. Middle English noun English noun Inherited from Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen.