noun
A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
Other meanings
An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
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
Synonyms
- name
- naming word
Related words
- nounal
- nounhood
- nounification
- nounize
- nounless
- nounlike
- nounness
- nounself pronoun
- nounship
- nouny
- postnoun
- prenoun
Word history
From Latin "nōmen" (name; noun).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “noun” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.