noun
Syllabification: (noun)
Pronunciation: /noun/
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Definition of noun
noun
GrammarDerivatives
Pronunciation: /ˈnounəl/
adjective
Origin:
late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin nomen 'name'
Grammar
Nouns are words used to identify people, places, things, and ideas. As a grammatical class, nouns satisfy most or all of the following tests: Number: they have a singular and a plural form:one car, two cars one child, several children Determiners: they can be preceded by a, an, or the:a child an apple the cars Modifiers: they can be modified by an adjective placed before them:a young child a ripe apple the new cars Phrases: they can form the main word of a noun phrase:a ripe red apple ready to eat the new cars in the lot Nouns fall into a number of broad groups: