noun
Example Sentences
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Then "grünen" indicates that the noun will be plural and green in color.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 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
Although it is obsolete in this sense, the verb survives in Welsh English in the sense of to scratch, especially with claws or fingernails, along with the noun use, to scratch.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025
When you’re more naive, you think of it as like a noun, but it’s a doing thing.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2025
The word belongs to the noun category, just as it always has; Sophocles did not suddenly turn into an adjective just because it is parked in front of another noun.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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