Noun

Etymology
From noun:, non:, nom:, from  nomen:.

Noun

 * 1)  A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

Synonyms

 * name, nameword
 * substantive

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:noun

Derived terms

 * abstract noun
 * adjectival noun
 * attributive noun
 * collective noun
 * common noun
 * concrete noun
 * count noun
 * countable noun
 * mass noun


 * non-count noun
 * noun adjunct
 * noun clause
 * noun of assemblage
 * noun of multitude
 * noun phrase
 * plural noun
 * pronoun
 * proper noun
 * uncountable noun

Related terms

 * nominal

Translations

 * Afrikaans: byvoeglike naamwoord
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ስም
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese: sustantibo
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac:
 * Hebrew:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: назоўнік
 * Bengali: বিশেষ্য
 * Bosnian: imenice
 * Breton: anv-kadarn
 * Bulgarian: съществително име
 * Burmese: နာမ
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Min Nan: bêng-sû
 * Chuvash:
 * Crimean Tatar: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Gujarati: સંજ્ઞા
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew: שם־עצם
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: (abbrev. “no.”)
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Interlingue:, nómine
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Gujarati: સંજ્ઞા
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew: שם־עצם
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: (abbrev. “no.”)
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Interlingue:, nómine
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: (めいし)
 * Kannada:
 * Kashubian:
 * Kazakh: зат есім
 * Khmer: នាម
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: зат атооч
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish: Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon:
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: kata nama
 * Malayalam: നാമം
 * Maltese:
 * Marathi:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk:
 * Novial:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English:
 * Persian: (nām), اسم
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: sutirimana
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese: නාම පදය
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swati: libito
 * Swedish: ,
 * Swiss German:
 * Tagalog: pangngalan
 * Tajik: исм
 * Tamil: பெயர்ச்சொல்
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: నామవాచకము
 * Thai:, คำนาม
 * Tok Pisin: nem bilong samting
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: substantiw
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: subsat
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: סובסטאנטיוו
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Upper Sorbian: substantiw
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: subsat
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: סובסטאנטיוו

Verb

 * 1)  To convert a word to a noun.
 * 2) * 1992, Lewis Acrelius Froman, Language and Power: Books III, IV, and V
 * For example, that females are different from but equal to males is oxymoronic by virtue of the nouned status of female and male as kinds of persons.
 * 1) * 2000, Andrew J. DuBrin, The complete idiot's guide to leadership
 * However, too much nouning makes you sound bureaucratic, immature, and verbally challenged. Top executives convert far fewer nouns into verbs than do workers at lower levels.

Anagrams

 * non-U

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