noun

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen. === Pronunciation === (UK, US) IPA(key): /naʊn/ (MLE) IPA(key): /nɒ(ʊ)n/ (Canada, dialectal) IPA(key): /nʌʊn/, [nəu̯n] (General Australian) IPA(key): /næʊn/, [næɔ̯n] Rhymes: -aʊn === Noun === noun (plural nouns) (grammar, strictly) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English. (grammar, now rare, loosely) 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. (computing) An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied. ==== Usage notes ==== (narrow sense) In English (and in many other languages), a noun can serve as the subject or object of a verb. For example, the English words table and computer are nouns. See Wikipedia’s article “Parts of speech”. ==== Synonyms ==== name, nameword (sensu stricto) noun substantive, substantive noun, substantive, naming word ==== Hyponyms ==== See Thesaurus:noun ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== nominal ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== countable === Verb === noun (third-person singular simple present nouns, present participle nouning, simple past and past participle nouned) (transitive) To convert a word to a noun. ==== Translations ==== === See also === (converting into or using as another part of speech) adjectivize/adjectivise, adjective, adjectify adverbialize/adverbialise, (rare) adverb, (rare) adverbify, adverbize nominalize/nominalise, substantivize/substantivise, noun, (rare) nounify, substantify, (very rare) substantive verbalize/verbalise, (colloquial) verb, verbify === References === noun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Further reading === “noun”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === non-U == Chuukese == === Determiner === noun third person singular possessive; his, hers, its (used with a special class of objects including living things) son of, daughter of ==== Related terms ==== == Middle English == === Alternative forms === none, nown, nowne, noune === Etymology === From Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen, a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /nuːn/ === Noun === noun (plural nounes) (grammar) noun (part of speech; a category of words including substantives or nouns in the strict sense and adjectives) An appellation. ==== Hyponyms ==== (grammar): noun substantyf noun abstract noune collectyf, nown collectif nowne appellatiue noun adiectyf ==== Descendants ==== English: noun ==== References ==== “nǒun(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 May 2018. == Occitan == === Alternative forms === non === Etymology === From Latin non. === Adverb === noun (Mistralian) no == Old French == === Noun === noun oblique singular, m (oblique plural nouns, nominative singular nouns, nominative plural noun) alternative form of nom