Look up: Noun

1. noun
   [n] - a word that can be used to refer to a person or place or thing 2. [n] - a word that can serve as the subject or object of a verb
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2. Noun
   a word which names an object
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3. Noun
   (Noun (nominative)) A noun is any word that can form the head word in a noun phrase or be the subject or object of a verb. Semantically speaking, a noun is any word that 'labels' or 'names' a person, thing or idea. There are several types of noun: common noun (e.g. computer, sandwich, cats), prope...
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4. Noun
   A noun is a word that denotes somebody or something. In the sentence My younger sister won some money in a competition, 'sister', 'money' and 'competition' are nouns. Many nouns (countable nouns) can be singular (only one) or plural (more than one). For example sister/sisters, problem/problems, par...
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5. Noun
   Noun noun [ Old French noun , nun , num , non , nom , French nom , from Latin nomen name. See Name .] (Gram.) A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existi...
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6. noun
   noun a word that can be used to refer to a person or place or thing
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7. Noun
   • (n.) A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive. • (n.) A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.
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8. noun
   (from the article `gender`) in language, a phenomenon in which the words of a certain part of speech, usually nouns, require the agreement, or concord, through grammatical ... ...is no doubt that the word river has a unique, individual reference to one single river, namely, the Colorado. This fact, however, does not make a ... [22 r...
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9. noun
   noun [Lat.,=name], in English, part of speech of vast semantic range. It can be used to name a person, place, thing, idea, or time. It generally functions as subject, object, or indirect object of the verb in the sentence, and may be distinguished by a number of formal criteria. A noun may be recogn...
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10. Noun
    In English and other natural languages, a word serving as a proper or common name (q.v.). -- A.C.
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11. noun
    Grammatical part of speech that names a person, animal, object, quality, idea, or time. Nouns can refer to objects such as house, tree (concrete nouns); specific persons and places such as John Alden, the White House (proper nouns); ideas such as love
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12. Noun
    In linguistics, a `noun` is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition (or put more simply, a noun is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing or abstract idea). Lexica...
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13. Noun
    (department) `Noun` is a department of West Province in accessdate=April 3, 2009-->-->The capital of the department lies at Foumban. Subdivisions: The department is divided administratively into nine communes and in turn into villages. Communes : # Bangourain # Foumban (urban) # Foumbot # Kou...
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