noun

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• 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.
• An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

Verb

• To convert a word to a noun.

Related

Similar words

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

Narrower meaning words

• abstract noun
• adjectival noun
• appellative noun
• attributive noun
• collective noun
• common noun
• concrete noun
• count noun
• mass noun
• noun of assemblage
• noun of multitude
• noun of number
• numeral noun
• non-count noun
• plural noun
• proper noun
• tool noun
• uncount noun

Origin

• 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. name.