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noun English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word noun once they have reached the level C1 – Advanced. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning noun meaning

What does noun mean?

Definitions in simple English

noun Noun

— A noun is a kind of word that is usually the name of a person, place, thing, quality, or idea. In English, nouns can be the subject or object of a sentence. They can be singular or plural. The words "cat", "home", "bread", "Sue" and "sunshine" are nouns.

noun

— noun the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition

— noun a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action

Synonyms noun synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as noun?

noun English » English

substantive

name

noun substantive

naming word

term

place

nominal

word

verb

repute

monicker

horse

first name

denomination

appellation

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Topics noun topics

What do people use noun to talk about?

Grammar

• What words refer to types of grammatical words?
  noun verb adjective adverb conjunction preposition particle article word participle infinitive part of speech compound derivative

Grammar

Name

• What general words refer to the name of a person, place, or thing?
  name proper noun

Grammar Name

Name of a person

• What words refer to the name of a person?
  name proper name proper noun first name given name personal name middle name last name family name father's name surname maiden name initial title identity

Examples noun examples

How do I use noun in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This particle turns a noun into a verb.

When writing for a German newspaper, every few sentences you should replace some grammatical case with a dative, or a noun with its English translation, to make your article linguistically more interesting.

Every noun in Portuguese is either masculine or feminine.

In French, adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they qualify.

German has a gender system, every noun has a gender: male, female, or neutral.

In this case, the adjective goes before the noun.

This word is both a noun and a verb.

A noun can be singular or plural.

I know the sentence must start with a noun.

Studying a table of Russian paradigms, Mary unconsciously knitted her brows and scratched her head. She marvelled that most Russian six-year-olds master the noun declensions with little apparent effort.

Sometimes a verb is derived from a noun and sometimes it is the other way around.

This word should be treated as a noun in this case.

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The word cat is a noun.

You never pushed a noun against a verb except to blow up something.

Propriety? Noun.

It's a noun.

That's not a noun, that's a fortune.

It's not a noun.

You have to use the feminine form of the noun.

As with the other terms used by the Tamarian, this appears to be a proper noun.

Possessive pronoun, noun, possessive pronoun. - Oh, watch it, girl. - Let's see.

Noun is correct!

Now, I'm going to write a sentence on the board and I want you to tell me the noun.

Yes, but only in the figurative noun form or the adjective form. Heh?

It's a noun, too.

A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun.

In French, if the adjective comes after the noun instead of before, is the meaning the same?

Don't you know the meaning of propriety? Propriety? Noun.

Noun.

It's not a noun. It's not a verb. It's not an adjective.

Pronoun is a noun that gets paid what an amateur noun would do for free.

OK, a pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.

Now, I'm going to write a sentence on the board and I want you to tell me the noun. I know!

Feminine noun.

Masculine noun.

As with the other terms used by the Tamarian this appears to be a proper noun.

Irony. It's a noun.

I would suggest that if we're going to recycle it, that we replace the noun.

I've learned that Dawson is not the past tense of a noun for you ladies.

Come on. Noun, verb, sentence. It's a piece of cake.

This word can be a verb, it can be a noun, it can be an adjective.

What is the collective noun for a group of baboons?

No, actually it's a noun.

What's the noun, I wonder, for a bunch of Cloades whose train has just run out of gravy?