Definitions
A word class used for people, places, things, or ideas.
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen.
Used in a sentence
“Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.”
“Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.””
“Q. What is a Noun? A. The Name of a Thing. Q. How many Sorts of Nouns are there? [...] A. A Noun Substantive, and a Noun Adjective.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Name class”4 letters
02“Name word”4 letters
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