Noun

In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and...

A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (Africa; Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common...

than hinder easy comprehension. The use of the hyphen in English compound nouns and verbs has, in general, been steadily declining. Compounds that might...

A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun...

Deverbal nouns are nouns that are derived from verbs or verb phrases. Verbal nouns and deverbal nouns are distinct syntactic word classes. Functionally...

The Noun Project is a website that aggregates and catalogs symbols that are created and uploaded by graphic designers around the world. Based in Los Angeles...

linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related...

Adjectival noun may refer to: Adjectival noun (Japanese), also called adjectival or na-adjective Noun adjunct, a noun that qualifies another noun, like college...

noun adjunct in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In grammar, a noun adjunct, attributive noun, qualifying noun, noun (pre)modifier, or apposite noun is...

In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of the characteristic features of its referent...

nouns (names) and common nouns. Common nouns are in turn divided into concrete and abstract nouns, and grammatically into count nouns and mass nouns....

In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific...

A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential...

Look up verbal noun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Historically, grammarians have described a verbal noun or gerundial noun as a verb form that functions...

Bhojpuri nouns are a category of words in the Bhojpuri language. As in other Indo-Aryan languages, Bhojpuri nouns possess a gender, either masculine or...

Look up noun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Noun is one of the parts of speech. Noun or Nouns may also refer to: Noun (department), a division of...

modifies a noun or noun phrase and uses some grammatical device to indicate that one of the arguments in the relative clause refers to the noun or noun phrase...

In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity...

A noun string is a term for a series of nouns or other words, all of which modify the final noun. For example, in the noun string “U.S. energy consumption”...

Look up count noun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, a count noun (also countable noun) is a noun that can be modified by a quantity...