Nouns

Word NOUNS
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /naʊnz/

Definitions and meanings of "Nouns"

What do we mean by nouns?

(grammar, narrow sense) 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.

(grammar, now rare, broad sense) 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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The word "nouns" in example sentences

Some authors have proceeded to still more minute divisions and sub-divisions of nouns; such, for example, as the following, which appear to be more complex than useful: _Natural nouns_, or names of things formed by nature; as, man, beast, water, air: 2. ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

+Participles+ adjectival as adjective modifiers as attribute complements as mere adjectives as mere nouns as objective complements as prepositions as principal word in a phrase definition of expansion of forms of in independent phrases misuse of modified by _a_ and _the_ modified by a possessive nounal, called _gerunds, infinitives, verbal nouns_ place of punctuation of used in slurring ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

Oh, and Krikorian also whines about “the whole Latina/Latino thing — English dropped gender in nouns, what, 1,000 years ago?” ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I don't have a particular idea in mind for a poem, I'll extract a few hundred nouns from a text (or a combination of texts) and write them down in columns. ❋ Melissa Broder (2010)

So even though certain nouns like domus (“house,” 4th) or res (“thing; matter; affair”, 5th) are technically regular and in very commonplace use, they still SEEM irregular because so few other nouns have matching patterns. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Throbert McGee: and still have a good recollection of the rather complicated patterns of inflectional suffixes for Latin nouns andverbs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of the ways that people avoid using gender specific nouns is to use honorifics (the trooper, a detective, the sergeant) rather than generic terms when refering to individual sworn officers but not using their name. ❋ Unknown (2010)

* Similarly, the Spanish letter ñ (which is always considered as a separate letter, not as a form of n) is usually found in words that had a double nn in Latin: annus – año (Romance languages form their nouns from the Latin ablative case, anno in this case). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Favourite collective nouns from the animal world: a charm of finches, a murder of crows. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As for the usefulness of gender in nouns, it does allow for an extra level of detail (as does case) which can allow German and other languages with gendered nouns an economy of expression that English cannot duplicate without inviting ambiguity. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He maintains that there are six cases in English nouns [C], that is, six various terminations without any change of termination at all, and that ❋ William Hazlitt (1804)

Their language, Farsi, although permeated with Arab nouns, is Indo-European. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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