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nouns, plural;
  1. A word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun)

  1. a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
  2. the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition
  3. Noun is a department of West Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 7687 km² and as of 2001 had a total population of 434,542. The capital of the department lies at Foumban.
  4. (Nouns (album)) Nouns is the first LP (as Weirdo Rippers was a compilation of singles and EPs) by American experimental music duo No Age. It was (partly) recorded at Southern Studios in London. ...
  5. (Nouns) are indicated by the use of the definite article, "the," following the word. Since Yiddish, like German, has three genders, it's important to know the noun's gender. The nominative definite articles are: Der, masculine; dos, neuter; and di, feminine (or plural). ...
  6. (Nouns) I feel that it is very useful to teach learners those collocations with a noun as a key word. This is because the majority of general nouns usually require further qualification:
  7. (Nouns) Noun derivatives, plurals and grammatical tools.
  8. (Nouns) Travel/journey/trip/expedition/safari/ cruise/voyage (BBC) - What is the difference ?
  9. (Nouns) aberration | alacrity | axiom | brevity | chagrin | conflagration | connoisseur | decadence | dissident | duplicity | extrovert | foible | hegemony | hyperbole | kinship | languor | levity | maverick | osmosis | receptacle | remorse | repartee | solidarity | spendthrift | subterfuge | ...
  10. (Nouns) anger (angr), bag (baggi), bait (bæit, bæita, bæiti), band (band), bark (bǫrkʀ, stem bark-), birth (byrðr), dirt (drit), dregs (dræggiaʀ), egg (ægg, related to OE. ...
  11. (Nouns) apple, baby, back, ball, bear, bed, bell, bird, birthday, boat, box, boy, bread, brother, cake, car, cat, chair, chicken, children, Christmas, coat, corn, cow, day, dog, doll, door, duck, egg, eye, farm, farmer, father, feet, fire, fish, floor, flower, game, garden, girl, good-bye, grass ...
  12. (Nouns) are name words. They refer to things, places, people and events. They may come with or without markers and can be replaced by pronouns --personal or demonstrative. Root nouns can stand alone. By affixation, they can become other nouns, adjectives, or verbs. ...
  13. (Nouns) are naming words - they give a name to people, places or things.
  14. (Nouns) have different classes: proper and common, concrete and abstract, count and noncount, and collective.
  15. Nouns are related to the cooking discourse. There aren’t any pronouns. In both Turkish and English recipes the same nouns are used.
  16. A word like table, dog, teacher, America etc. A noun is the name of an object, concept, person or place. A “concrete noun” is something you can see or touch like a person or car. An “abstract noun” is something that you cannot see or touch like a decision or happiness. ...
  17. A word which refers to a thing, person, or idea, e.g. car, daughter, friendship.
  18. The lexical category of Noun (N) consists of words such as John, truth and electron. In Universal Grammar theory, a noun is the head of a lexical phrase, the Noun Phrase. It can also be thought of as a potential Subject of the sentence, The truth hurts.
  19. Noun. Portion of the nomenclature column that is normally capitalized and possibly included in a parts index. Attributes: N/A
  20. n :  any member of a class of words that typically can be combined with determiners to serve as the subject of a verb, can be interpreted as singular or plural (and in some languages dual), can be replaced with a pronoun, and refer to an entity, quality, state, action, or concept. ...
  21. A word that denotes a thing (concrete or abstract).
  22. A process whereby evil murderous thugs are turned into everyday heroes by an overzealous mainstream media. ...
  23. A group of words, found in speech/writing, that refer to a person, place, idea or object.  Nouns are classified as common, proper, abstract or collective.
  24. A category of word (whose members include items such as boy/friend/thought/sadness/computer) which typically denotes an entity of some kind. See §2.2 and §2.3. In traditional grammar, a distinction is drawn between common nouns and proper nouns. Proper nouns are names of individual people (e.g. ...
  25. Original Video Animation. A sort of anime miniseries produced to be released directly to video.