noun
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At first he objected to the singular noun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The species name populi is a Latin singular noun in the genitive case meaning "of the people."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 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
It can also be used as a noun.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
When she reads the word the, for example, she figures she must be hearing a noun phrase.
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
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
The demeanor in the chat of Hegseth, until recently a weekend cable news host, is one of insecurity; here’s a guy who wants to show off how many acronyms and proper nouns he knows.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2025
"We started with the basics - the alphabet, nouns, verbs, present continuous," she says.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024
I wish, when I was back in that French class, that I had connected the conjugations, verbs, and gendered nouns to something grander.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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