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noun
/naʊn/UK/nɒ(ʊ)n//nʌʊn/CA

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Italic *nōmn̥ Latin nōmen Anglo-Norman noun, non, nombor. Middle English noun English noun 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.

  1. derived from nōmen
  2. derived from nom

Definitions

  1. A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person,…

    A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

    • 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.”

  2. Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon,…

    Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.

    • 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.
    • A Noun is a word which serves to name and distinguish some thing; [...]. There are two sorts of nouns; one is called a noun substantive, and the other a noun adjective.
    • The first part of a compound word is either a noun (substantive, adjective, or numeral), an adverb, or a preposition, and in a very few cases a verb.

  3. An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e.,…

    An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

    • Nouns are the data; verbs are the data transformations, and therefore verbs represent much of the complexity of systems.
    • You choose either (1) the verb (change font) first and then select the noun (the paragraph) to which the verb should apply or (2) the noun first and then apply the verb.
    • Thus, in essence, the mouse provides a capability for picking among a set of nouns (for instance, the file to which to apply some action) and verbs (such as "edit" or "insert")
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To convert a word to a noun.

      • What is not clear is how the nouning of verbs supports Simon's assumed correspondence between mechanical designing and intentional human responses. Is it the very nouning of verbs which indicates that the above correspondence exists?
      • For example, that females are different from but equal to males is oxymoronic by virtue of the nouned status of female and male as kinds of persons.
      • However, too much nouning makes you sound bureaucratic, immature, and verbally challenged. Top executives convert far fewer nouns into verbs than do workers at lower levels.

    2. A department of the West Region, Cameroon.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at noun. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at noun. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at noun

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA