In linguistics, an adnoun is a kind of lexical category. In English, it is a word that is usually an adjective, but is being used as a noun. The origin of the word is thought to date to around 1745-1755. Examples: Often these usages are simply identified as the noun form of the word. ==Alternatively== Adnoun is also considered to be an archaic ter... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnoun