different between noun vs nounal
noun
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)
- (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.
- (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)
- (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?
- 1974, The Modern Schoolman, page 144:
Translations
References
- noun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- noun at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- non-U
Chuukese
Determiner
noun
- third person singular possessive; his, hers, its (used with a special class of objects including living things)
- 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)
- (grammar) noun (part of speech; a category of words including substantives or nouns in the strict sense and adjectives)
- 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
- (Mistralian) no
Old French
Noun
noun m (oblique plural nouns, nominative singular nouns, nominative plural noun)
- Alternative form of nom
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nounal
English
Etymology
noun +? -al; used to avoid confusion with other senses of nominal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?na?n?l/
Adjective
nounal (comparative more nounal, superlative most nounal)
- Of, relating to, or acting as a noun.
- Synonym: nominal
Anagrams
- Luonan, annulo-
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