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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishnoun, fromAnglo-Normannoun, non, nom, fromLatinnōmen(“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan fromKoine Greekὄνομα(ónoma).Doublet ofname andnomen.

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noun (pluralnouns)

  1. (grammar, strictly) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such asperson,animal,place,word,thing,phenomenon,substance,quality, oridea: one of the basic parts ofspeech in many languages, includingEnglish.
    • 2011 September 1, Harry Pearson, “London 2012 can legacy by verbing the noun”, inThe Guardian‎[1], archived fromthe original on22 September 2024:
      Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed andnouns have been verbed.
    • 2019 September 24, Jessie Yeung, quotingPope Francis, “Pope Francis loves nouns but is ‘allergic’ to adjectives”, inCNN‎[2], archived fromthe original on27 September 2019:
      Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from thenoun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”
  2. (grammar, now rare, loosely) Either aword that can be used to refer to aperson,animal,place,thing,phenomenon,substance,quality oridea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; asubstantive oradjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such asnumeral orpronoun.
    • 1753, Thomas Martin,An Explanation of the Accidence and Grammar To the End of the Syntax in which The Grounds of each Rule in the Syntax are laid down in the plainest Manner. Compiled By way of Question and Answer, For the Use of Schools., London, page 1:
      Q. What is aNoun? A. The Name of a Thing. Q. How many Sorts ofNouns are there? [...]A. ANoun Substantive, and aNoun Adjective.
    • 1786, Signor Veneroni,The Complete Italian Master; Containing The best and easiest Rules for attaining that Language, London, page 6:
      ANoun is a word which serves to name and distinguish some thing; [...]. There are two sorts ofnouns; one is called anoun substantive, and the other anoun adjective.
    • 1852, Leonhard Schmitz,Elementary Latin grammar, Edinburgh, page123:
      The first part of a compound word is either anoun (substantive, adjective, or numeral), an adverb, or a preposition, and in a very few cases a verb.
    • 1856, R. G. Latham,Logic in its application to language, London, page224:
      Finally, there are many who limit the parts of speech to thenoun, the verb, and the particle; referring to the first, the substantive, the adjective, and the pronoun (including the article), to the second the participle, to the third the remainder.
    • 1956, Herbert Weir Smyth, Gordon M. Messing, “189. Parts of Speech”, inGreek Grammar, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, page44:
      Greek has the following parts of speech: substantives, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and particles. In this Grammarnoun is used to include both the substantive and the adjective.
    • 1894, B. L. Gildersleeve, G. Lodge,Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar, Dover, published2008, page 9:
      The Parts of Speech are theNoun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]
    • 1993, Arthur Anthony Macdonell,A Vedic Grammar For Students, 1st Indian edition, Delhi, page283:
      The parts of which the sentence may consist are either inflected words: thenoun (substantive and adjective) and the verb, the participle which shares the nature of both, and the pronoun; or uninflected words: prepositions, adverbs, and conjunctions.
  3. (computing) Anobject within auser interface to which a certainaction ortransformation (i.e.,verb) is applied.
    • 1992, Brad A. Myers, David C. Smith, Bruce Horn, chapter 19, inLanguages for Developing User Interfaces:
      Nouns are the data; verbs are the data transformations, and therefore verbs represent much of the complexity of systems.
    • 2000, Jeff Raskin,The Humane Interface, page59:
      You choose either (1) the verb (change font) first and then select thenoun (the paragraph) to which the verb should apply or (2) the noun first and then apply the verb.
    • 2005, Barbara J. Grosz,Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume149, number 4:
      Thus, in essence, the mouse provides a capability for picking among a set ofnouns (for instance, the file to which to apply some action) and verbs (such as "edit" or "insert")

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Derived terms

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some may also be hyponyms and should be placed in above section

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Translations

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grammatical category (narrow sense)
grammatical category (broad sense)

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Verb

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noun (third-person singular simple presentnouns,present participlenouning,simple past and past participlenouned)

  1. (transitive) To convert a word to a noun.
    • 1974,The Modern Schoolman‎[3], page144:
      What is not clear is how thenouning of verbs supports Simon's assumed correspondence between mechanical designing and intentional human responses. Is it the verynouning of verbs which indicates that the above correspondence exists?
    • 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 thenouned status of female and male as kinds of persons.
    • 2000, Andrew J. DuBrin,The complete idiot's guide to leadership:
      However, too muchnouning makes you sound bureaucratic, immature, and verbally challenged. Top executives convert far fewer nouns into verbs than do workers at lower levels.

Translations

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convert into a noun—seesubstantivise

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References

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Further reading

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  • “noun”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

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Chuukese

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Determiner

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noun

  1. third person singular possessive;his,hers,its (used with a special class of objects including living things)
  2. son of,daughter of

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Chuukese possessive determiners
small objects, conceptslarge objects, living thingssuffix
singularfirst personainei-ei
second personomw,omnoum-om
third personannoun-an
pluralfirst personäm (exclusive)
ach (inclusive)		nöu̇m (exclusive)
nöüch (inclusive)		-em (exclusive)
-ach (inclusive)
second personämi,aminoumi-emi
third personarnour-er

Middle English

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Etymology

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FromAnglo-Normannoun, non, nom, fromLatinnōmen, a semantic loan fromKoine Greekὄνομα(ónoma).Doublet ofname.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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noun (pluralnounes)

  1. (grammar)noun(part of speech; a category of words includingsubstantives ornouns in the strict sense andadjectives)
  2. Anappellation.

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(grammar):

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Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromLatinnon.

Adverb

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noun

  1. (Mistralian)no

Old French

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Noun

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nounoblique singular, m (oblique pluralnouns,nominative singularnouns,nominative pluralnoun)

  1. alternative form ofnom
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