noun

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /naʊn/
• (Southern American English, MLE) IPA: /næːn/

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

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.

Anagrams

• non-U

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

Alternative forms

• none, nown, nowne, noune

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nuːn/

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.

Alternative forms

• non

Adverb

noun

1. (Mistralian) no

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of nom