noun phrase

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === noun phrase (plural noun phrases) (grammar) A phrase that has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun. ==== Hypernyms ==== nonclause ==== Hyponyms ==== compound noun of open compound type ==== Coordinate terms ==== compound word (types of phrases, by part of speech): adjective phrase adverbial phrase conjunctional phrase interjectional phrase prepositional phrase (parts of speech, of phrasal type): phrasal noun (not to be confused) phrasal preposition phrasal verb pronominal phrase verb phrase ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === noun phrase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia