noun

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Noun

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /naʊn/
• SAMPA: /naUn/

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Noun

Singular noun

Plural nouns

1. (countable) A noun is a kind of word that is usually the name of a person, place, thing, quality, or idea. In English, nouns can be the subject or object of a sentence. They can be singular or plural.

   The words "cat", "home", "bread", "Sue" and "sunshine" are nouns.

Synonyms

• name
• substantive

Related words

• Category:Nouns

Types of nouns (edit)

common noun - proper noun | concrete noun - abstract noun count noun - uncountable noun (or mass noun) - collective noun singular noun - plural noun | possessive noun

Grammar (edit)
parts of speech	noun - verb - adjective - adnoun - adverb - determinative/determiner - article - participle - pronoun - conjunction - preposition - interjection
grammatical functions	head - dependent - subject - predicate - predicator - object - complement - predicative complement - predicative adjunct - predicative oblique - appositive oblique - modifier - supplement - adjunct - determiner/specifier
clauses	main clause - dependent clause - subordinate clause - relative clause