Noun

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  • noun. The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive.
  • noun. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as neighbor, window, happiness, or negotiation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In grammar, a name; a word that denotes a thing, material or immaterial; a part of speech that admits of being used as subject or object of a verb, or of being governed by a preposition.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • verb. To convert a word to a noun.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
  • noun. the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition
  • Word Usage
    "A noun signifying many, is called a _collective noun_, or _noun of multitude_; as, the _people_, the _army_."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brown  Browne  Down  Downe  Town  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    name  nameword  substantive  term