noun

Example Sentences

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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

Mr. Burke eschews “terrorist” as a noun, because “I do not think reducing complex individuals to a single-word description is helpful.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

It can also be used as a noun.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

I would look up a word in the lexicon only to forget it when I turned to write it down; my noun cases, my verb forms, had left me utterly.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt