noun

Speech parts

1. noun - Noun

2. noun - Verb

Meaning

A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

name substantive term word title description expression phrase handle label designation tag denomination appellation moniker

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Antonyms

count noun

Hypernyms

substantive content word open-class word major form class

Hyponyms

proper noun common noun count noun collective noun proper name mass noun

Phrases with the word

substantive noun noun adjective quotation noun exclamatory noun adjective noun noun with the form of a plural

Examples

To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun. Gore Vidal

Good is a noun rather than an adjective. Robert M. Pirsig

When I said. "A rose is a rose is a rose." And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do? I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun. Gertrude Stein

I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing - a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe. Buckminster Fuller

Ludicrous concepts...like the whole idea of a "war on terrorism". You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary? Terry Jones

But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation. J. L. Austin

Close letter words and terms

noumenally noumenology noumenon noun adjective noun adjunct noun class