In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence,...

A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (Africa; Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common...

of grammatical functions These functions could be fulfilled by other abstract nouns derived from verbs such as vēnātiō 'hunting'. Gerunds are distinct in...

Sesotho nouns signify concrete or abstract concepts in the language, but are distinct from the Sesotho pronouns. Bantu languages are often said to have...

HaShimush). Due to noun-adjective agreement rules, these apply to nouns and to adjectival modifiers. In some cases, a masculine plural noun will have a feminine...

characteristics of the noun in the dative of purpose: the noun is abstract or semi-abstract; this noun is only in the singular; this noun is used predicatively;...

translated as "Noun": a part of speech inflected for case, signifying a concrete or abstract entity. It includes various species like nouns, adjectives,...

Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun سلطة sulṭah, meaning "authority"...

although it had earlier acquired sexual connotations. The derived abstract noun gaiety remains largely free of sexual connotations and has, in the past...

term is from Greek: παρωνυχία from para 'around', onyx 'nail', and the abstract noun suffix -ia. Risk factors include repeatedly washing hands and trauma...