Noun

A noun is a word that has a referent, and can be a Verb Subject or Verb Object.

• Context:
  • It can be a member of the Noun Class.
  • It can range from being a Lexical Noun ("boy", "Betty") to being a Grammatical Noun (e.g. pronoun).
  • It can have:
    • a Noun Number (a Singular Noun or a Plural Noun);
    • a Noun Definiteness (a Definite Noun or an Indefinite Noun);
    • a Noun Case (though infrequent in English).
  • It can be the Head Word of a noun phrase, such as “The former [president]”
  • It can serve as a Syntactic Verb Argument.
  • It can (?must) be a Referring Expression (typically and Entity Mention).
  • It can be a Hyponym to a Hypernym via a Hyponymy Relation, e.g. dog=>animal.
• Example(s):
  • Common Nouns, such as: "singer” and "singers".
  • Concrete Nouns, such as: rock and planet.
    • Proper Nouns, such as: "Michael", and "Michael Jackson".
  • Abstract Nouns, such as: bravery and homonym.
  • Pronouns, such as: “I”, “she”.
  • an English Noun[1], a German Noun, a Chinese Noun, ...
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Verb, such as: run, running
• See: Adjective, Noun Phrase.

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Reference(s)

2009

• WordNet.
  • S: (n) noun (a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action)
  • S: (n) noun (the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition)
• Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noun
  • (grammar) A word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages. In English and in many other languages, a noun can serve as the subject or object of a verb. For example, the English words table and computer are nouns.
  • In English and in many other languages, a noun can serve as the subject or object of a verb. For example, the English words table and computer are nouns. See Wikipedia’s article “Parts of speech”.

• (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun
  • A noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. The syntactic rules for nouns differ from language to language. In English, nouns may be defined as those words which can occur with articles and attributive adjectives and can function as the head of a noun phrase. In traditional English grammar, the noun is one of the eight parts of speech.
  • In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. [1]
  • Lexical categories are defined in terms of how their members combine with other kinds of expressions. The syntactic rules for nouns differ from language to language. In English, nouns may be defined as those words which can occur with articles and attributive adjectives and can function as the head of a noun phrase.
  • In traditional English grammar, the noun is one of the eight parts of speech.

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