different between nameword vs noun

English

Etymology

From name +? word. Compare Dutch naamwoord (“nameword, noun (sensu lato)”) and German Namenwort.

Noun

nameword (plural namewords)

1. A designation or name given to an object, person or location.
2. (grammar) A noun.

Synonyms

• noun
• denomination, appellation

English

Etymology

From Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin n?men (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ????? (ónoma). Doublet of name.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /na?n/
• (Southern American English, MLE) IPA^(key): /næ?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

noun (plural nouns)

1. (grammar, narrow sense) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

2. (grammar, now rare, broad sense) 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.

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• name, nameword
• (sensu stricto) noun substantive, substantive noun, substantive, naming word

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• nominal

Translations

See also

• countable

Verb

noun (third-person singular simple present nouns, present participle nouning, simple past and past participle nouned)

1. (transitive) To convert a word to a noun.
   • 1974, The Modern Schoolman, page 144:

     What is not clear is how the nouning of verbs supports Simon's assumed correspondence between mechanical designing and intentional human responses. Is it the very nouning of verbs which indicates that the above correspondence exists?

Translations

References

• noun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• noun at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• non-U

Chuukese

Determiner

noun

1. third person singular possessive; his, hers, its (used with a special class of objects including living things)
2. son of, daughter of

Related terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

• none, nown, nowne, noune

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin n?men, a semantic loan from Koine Greek ????? (ónoma). Doublet of name.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu?n/

Noun

noun (plural nounes)

1. (grammar) noun (part of speech; a category of words including substantives or nouns in the strict sense and adjectives)
2. An appellation.

Descendants

• English: noun

Hyponyms

(grammar):

• noun substantyf
  • noun abstract
  • noune collectyf, nown collectif
  • nowne appellatiue
• noun adiectyf

References

• “n?un(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• non

Etymology

From Latin non.

Adverb

noun

1. (Mistralian) no

Old French

Noun

noun m (oblique plural nouns, nominative singular nouns, nominative plural noun)

1. Alternative form of nom