Etymology

Noun

1. A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, event, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

Usage notes

• In English (and in many other languages), a noun can serve as the subject or object of a verb. For example, the English words and are nouns. See Wikipedia’s article “Parts of speech”.

Related terms

• abstract noun
• adjectival noun
• attributive noun
• collective noun
• common noun
• concrete noun
• count noun
• countable noun

• mass noun
• nominal
• non-count noun
• noun adjunct
• noun clause
• noun of assemblage
• noun of multitude

• noun phrase
• plural noun
• pronoun
• proper noun
• uncountable noun