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noun

[naun] / naʊn /
NOUN
substantive
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But the majority explained “the noun ‘election’ must be distinguished from the noun phrase ‘election day’.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

Then "grünen" indicates that the noun will be plural and green in color.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2026

But, despite his best efforts not to dwell on the stakes of his work, the noun “rebellion” was never far from his mind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

I don’t think there’s any directive that you have to have a noun in your title that refers to a woman, whether it’s wife, girl, sister.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2019

Though nouns are often the names for people, places, and things, the noun category can only be defined by the role it plays in a family of rules.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

He had both humans and AI large language models complete a standard test for measuring creativity: Think of 10 nouns that differ as widely as possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

In German, you have different kinds of nouns, female and male, and there are ways to be gender inclusive.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025

Unlike languages such as French and Spanish, Yautja has no grammatical gender, so nouns aren’t assigned gender categories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

"We started with the basics - the alphabet, nouns, verbs, present continuous," she says.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024

If that’s not confusing enough, some singular nouns that end in s are regarded as pairs—scissors, trousers, tongs, pliers, tweezers, and breeches, for instance.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner


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