English Explanatory Dictionary

noun

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
  2. Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
  3. An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
verb
  1. To convert a word to a noun.
name
  1. A department of the West Region, Cameroon.

Pronunciation

/naʊn/ /nɒ(ʊ)n/ /nʌʊn/ [nəu̯n] /næʊn/ [næɔ̯n] en-us-inlandnorth-noun.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-noun.wav

Word forms

noun nouns nouning nouned

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Latin nōmen Anglo-Norman noun, non, nombor. Middle English noun English noun Inherited from Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen.

Synonyms

name nameword substantive noun substantive naming word noun noun substantive

Related words

nominal countable cat mountain plant Peter London Newton dog hill tree water gold information herd litter audience creation massage perusal doer identifier swimmer Guelmim-Oued Noun

Derived words

action noun adnoun agent noun bare noun binary noun bloody noun improper noun invariant noun material noun noncount noun noun adjective noun adjunct nounal noun class noun clause nounhood nounification nounize nounless nounlike noun modifier nounness noun numeral noun of place noun phrase noun-self pronoun nounself pronoun nounship noun substantive proper nouny numerical noun phrasal noun postnoun post-noun predicate noun prenoun pronoun result noun root-noun root noun verbal noun

Translations

Afrikaans: selfstandige naamwoord Afrikaans: naamwoord Albanian: emër Southern Altai: адалгыш Amharic: ስም Arabic: اِسْم الذَّات Arabic: اِسْم Arabic: اسم Aragonese: sustantibo Aramaic: ܫܡܐ Aramaic: שמא Armenian: գոյական Assamese: বিশেষ্য পদ Assamese: বিশেষ্য Asturian: sustantivu Azerbaijani: isim Azerbaijani: ad Bashkir: исем Basque: izen Belarusian: назо́ўнік Bengali: বিশেষ্য Central Bikol: pangngaran Breton: anv-kadarn Bulgarian: съществи́телно и́ме Bulgarian: съществи́телно Bulgarian: и́ме Burmese: နာမ် Buryat: юумэнэй нэрэ Carpathian Rusyn: назывник Catalan: substantiu Cebuano: pungan Chechen: цӏердош Cherokee: ᏚᏙᎥᎢ Chinese Cantonese: 名詞 /名词 Hakka Chinese: 名詞 /名词 Chinese: 名詞 /名词 Chinese Mandarin: 名詞 /名词 Chuvash: япала ячӗ Cornish: hanow Crimean Tatar: ad Crimean Tatar: isim Czech: podstatné jméno Czech: substantivum Czech: jméno Danish: substantiv Danish: navneord Dutch: zelfstandig naamwoord Dutch: substantief Dutch: naamwoord Erzya: лемвал Esperanto: substantivo Estonian: nimisõna Ewe: nuŋkɔ Faroese: navnorð
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