a word that refers to a person (such as Ann or doctor), a place (such as Paris or city) or a thing, a quality or an activity (such as plant, sorrow or tennis)see alsoabstract noun,common noun,proper nounWordfindergrammarcase,conjugate,gender,grammar,inflect,noun,part of speech,singular,subject,tenseOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveplural,singular,countable,…verb + noundecline,inflect,modify,…noun + verbend in something,follow something,precede something,…noun + nounclass,phraseSeefull entrySee related entries:GrammarWord Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin nomen ‘name’.Extra examples‘Car’ is a concrete noun.‘Flock’ is a collective noun.‘Happiness’ is an abstract noun.‘Sheep’ is both a singular and a plural noun.English nouns are not usually inflected.Most English plural nouns end in an ‘s’.Most feminine nouns in Polish end in the letter ‘a’.Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.The noun is followed by an intransitive verb.a prepositional phrase qualifying a nounan adjective preceding the noun
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