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noun
Part of speech: NounThe name of any person, place, thing, or quality.
Usage examples "noun":- He thought he perceived also that defect in the expression of the qualities, always presented, in all languages, out of the subjects, and never in the noun which they modify; and, by the help of a process no less simple than ingenious and profound, he has made the deaf and dumb comprehend the most arduous difficulty, the nature of abstraction; he has initiated them in the art of generalizing ideas by presenting to them the adjective in the noun, as the quality is in the object, and the quality subsisting alone and out of the object, having no support but in the mind, for him who considers it, and but in the abstract noun for him who reads the expression of it. - "Paris As It Was and As It Is", Francis W. Blagdon.
- It's always capitalized, always a proper noun. - "The World That Couldn't Be", Clifford Donald Simak.
- After all, I was only twenty- eight; the noun I had chosen was- girl. - "The Ideal", Stanley Grauman Weinbaum.