Noun, the Glossary
In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.[1]
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77 relations: Abstract and concrete, Adjective, Adposition, Afro-Caribbean people, Agreement (linguistics), Ancient Greek, Anglo-Norman language, Article (grammar), Awa language (Papua New Guinea), Bimal Krishna Matilal, Cognate, Confucius, Cratylus (dialogue), Czech language, Dead metaphor, Description, Determiner, Dionysius Thrax, French language, Functional linguistics, Gender, Generalized quantifier, Grammar, Grammatical case, Grammatical category, Grammatical gender, Grammatical number, Head (linguistics), Hendiadys, Hendiatris, Inalienable possession, Italian language, Jupiter, Klingon, Latin grammar, Linguistics, Manfred Krifka, Morphology (linguistics), Nelson Mandela, Nirukta, Nominal (linguistics), Noun adjunct, Noun phrase, Numeral system, Object (grammar), Papua New Guinea, Part of speech, Pegasus, Pequod (Moby-Dick), Phi features, ... Expand index (27 more) »
- Autological words
- Nouns
Abstract and concrete
In metaphysics, the distinction between abstract and concrete refers to a divide between two types of entities.
See Noun and Abstract and concrete
Adjective
An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.
Adposition
Adpositions are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards, behind, ago, etc.) or mark various semantic roles (of, for). Noun and Adposition are parts of speech.
Afro-Caribbean people
Afro-Caribbean people or African Caribbean are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Africa.
See Noun and Afro-Caribbean people
Agreement (linguistics)
In linguistics, agreement or concord (abbreviated) occurs when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates.
See Noun and Agreement (linguistics)
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Anglo-Norman language
Anglo-Norman (Anglo-Normaund), also known as Anglo-Norman French, was a dialect of Old Norman that was used in England and, to a lesser extent, other places in Great Britain and Ireland during the Anglo-Norman period.
See Noun and Anglo-Norman language
Article (grammar)
In grammar, an article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases. Noun and article (grammar) are grammar and parts of speech.
See Noun and Article (grammar)
Awa language (Papua New Guinea)
Awa is a Kainantu language of Papua New Guinea.
See Noun and Awa language (Papua New Guinea)
Bimal Krishna Matilal
Bimal Krishna Matilal (1 June 1935 – 8 June 1991) was an eminent philosopher whose writings presented the Indian philosophical tradition as a comprehensive system of logic incorporating most issues addressed by themes in Western philosophy.
See Noun and Bimal Krishna Matilal
Cognate
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.
See Noun and Cognate
Confucius
Confucius (孔子; pinyin), born Kong Qiu (孔丘), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages, as well as the first teacher in China to advocate for mass education.
Cratylus (dialogue)
Cratylus (Κρατύλος) is the name of a dialogue by Plato.
See Noun and Cratylus (dialogue)
Czech language
Czech (čeština), historically also known as Bohemian (lingua Bohemica), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.
A dead metaphor is a figure of speech which has lost the original imagery of its meaning by extensive, repetitive, and popular usage, or because it refers to an obsolete technology or forgotten custom.
Description
Description is any type of communication that aims to make vivid a place, object, person, group, or other physical entity. Noun and Description are grammar.
Determiner
Determiner, also called determinative (abbreviated), is a term used in some models of grammatical description to describe a word or affix belonging to a class of noun modifiers. Noun and Determiner are grammar and parts of speech.
Dionysius Thrax
Dionysius Thrax (Διονύσιος ὁ Θρᾷξ Dionýsios ho Thrâix, 170–90 BC) was a Greek grammarian and a pupil of Aristarchus of Samothrace.
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
Functional linguistics
Functional linguistics is an approach to the study of language characterized by taking systematically into account the speaker's and the hearer's side, and the communicative needs of the speaker and of the given language community.
See Noun and Functional linguistics
Gender
Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity.
See Noun and Gender
Generalized quantifier
In formal semantics, a generalized quantifier (GQ) is an expression that denotes a set of sets.
See Noun and Generalized quantifier
Grammar
In linguistics, a grammar is the set of rules for how a natural language is structured, as demonstrated by its speakers or writers.
See Noun and Grammar
Grammatical case
A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording.
Grammatical category
In linguistics, a grammatical category or grammatical feature is a property of items within the grammar of a language. Noun and grammatical category are grammar.
See Noun and Grammatical category
Grammatical gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.
See Noun and Grammatical gender
Grammatical number
In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").
See Noun and Grammatical number
Head (linguistics)
In linguistics, the head or nucleus of a phrase is the word that determines the syntactic category of that phrase.
See Noun and Head (linguistics)
Hendiadys
Hendiadys is a figure of speech used for emphasis—"The substitution of a conjunction for a subordination".
Hendiatris
Hendiatris is a figure of speech used for emphasis, in which three words are used to express one idea.
Inalienable possession
In linguistics, inalienable possession (abbreviated) is a type of possession in which a noun is obligatorily possessed by its possessor. Noun and inalienable possession are grammar.
See Noun and Inalienable possession
Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
See Noun and Jupiter
Klingon
The Klingons (Klingon: tlhIngan) are a fictional species in the science fiction franchise Star Trek.
See Noun and Klingon
Latin grammar
Latin is a heavily inflected language with largely free word order.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
Manfred Krifka
Manfred Krifka (born 26 April 1956 in Dachau) is a German linguist.
Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language. Noun and morphology (linguistics) are grammar.
See Noun and Morphology (linguistics)
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Nirukta
Nirukta (निरुक्त,, "explained, interpreted") is one of the six ancient Vedangas, or ancillary science connected with the Vedas – the scriptures of Hinduism.
See Noun and Nirukta
Nominal (linguistics)
In linguistics, the term nominal refers to a category used to group together nouns and adjectives based on shared properties. Noun and nominal (linguistics) are parts of speech.
See Noun and Nominal (linguistics)
Noun adjunct
In grammar, a noun adjunct, attributive noun, qualifying noun, noun (pre)modifier, or apposite noun is an optional noun that modifies another noun; functioning similarly to an adjective, it is, more specifically, a noun functioning as a pre-modifier in a noun phrase.
Noun phrase
A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun.
Numeral system
A numeral system is a writing system for expressing numbers; that is, a mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set, using digits or other symbols in a consistent manner.
Object (grammar)
In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments.
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).
Part of speech
In grammar, a part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) that have similar grammatical properties. Noun and part of speech are grammar and parts of speech.
Pegasus
Pegasus (Pḗgasos; Pegasus, Pegasos) is a winged horse in Greek mythology, usually depicted as a white stallion.
See Noun and Pegasus
Pequod (Moby-Dick)
Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville.
See Noun and Pequod (Moby-Dick)
Phi features
In linguistics, especially within generative grammar, phi features (denoted with the Greek letter φ 'phi') are the morphological expression of a semantic process in which a word or morpheme varies with the form of another word or phrase in the same sentence.
Physical object
In common usage and classical mechanics, a physical object or physical body (or simply an object or body) is a collection of matter within a defined contiguous boundary in three-dimensional space.
Plato
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
See Noun and Plato
Plural
The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.
See Noun and Plural
Predicative expression
A predicative expression (or just predicative) is part of a clause predicate, and is an expression that typically follows a copula or linking verb, e.g. be, seem, appear, or that appears as a second complement of a certain type of verb, e.g. call, make, name, etc.
See Noun and Predicative expression
Prefix
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.
See Noun and Prefix
Pronoun
In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase. Noun and pronoun are parts of speech.
See Noun and Pronoun
Proper noun
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 noun, which is a noun that refers to a class of entities (continent, planet, person, corporation) and may be used when referring to instances of a specific class (a continent, another planet, these persons, our corporation).
Punctuation
Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. Noun and Punctuation are grammar.
Reference
A reference is a relationship between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
Referent
A referent is a person or thing to which a name – a linguistic expression or other symbol – refers.
Romanian language
Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.
See Noun and Romanian language
Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Semantics
Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. Noun and Semantics are grammar.
Sense
A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli.
See Noun and Sense
Sex
Sex is the biological trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes.
See Noun and Sex
SIL International
SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is an evangelical Christian nonprofit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy, translate the Christian Bible into local languages, and aid minority language development.
See Noun and SIL International
Subject (grammar)
A subject is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the predicate, which modifies the subject).
See Noun and Subject (grammar)
Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.
See Noun and Suffix
Syntax
In linguistics, syntax is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Noun and syntax are grammar.
See Noun and Syntax
The Art of Grammar
The Art of Grammar (Τέχνη Γραμματική - or romanized, Téchnē Grammatikḗ) is a treatise on Greek grammar, attributed to Dionysius Thrax, who wrote in the 2nd century BC.
See Noun and The Art of Grammar
Transitive verb
A transitive verb is a verb that entails one or more transitive objects, for example, 'enjoys' in Amadeus enjoys music.
Uluru
Uluru (Uluṟu), also known as Ayers Rock and officially gazetted as UluruAyers Rock, is a large sandstone monolith.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
See Noun and University of Chicago Press
Utopia
A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members.
See Noun and Utopia
Verb
A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). Noun and verb are parts of speech.
See Noun and Verb
Yāska
Yāska was an ancient Indian grammarian and linguist (7th–5th century BCE).
See Noun and Yāska
See also
Autological words
- Americentrism
- Noun
- Word
Nouns
- Noun
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun
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