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noun

[naun] / naʊn /
NOUN
substantive
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The Spanish noun for them is “desaparecidos,” and English has adapted the word as “the disappeared.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026

The species name populi is a Latin singular noun in the genitive case meaning "of the people."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2026

It could literally substitute any noun, including Sulzberger, for Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 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

Indeed, there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the common noun had originated.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Change some of the nouns and Rosten’s book reads as if it were published in the 2020s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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

By the end of the month, I'd managed to retain three hundred nouns, none of which proved to be the least bit useful.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris




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