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...

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...

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...

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...

The Noun Project is a website that aggregates and catalogs symbols that are created and uploaded by graphic designers around the world. Based in Los Angeles...

than hinder easy comprehension. The use of the hyphen in English compound nouns and verbs has, in general, been steadily declining. Compounds that might...

Adjectival noun may refer to: Adjectival noun (Japanese), also called adjectival or na-adjective Noun adjunct, a noun that qualifies another noun, like college...

Deverbal nouns are nouns that are derived from verbs or verb phrases. Verbal nouns and deverbal nouns are distinct syntactic word classes. Functionally...

nouns (names) and common nouns. Common nouns are in turn divided into concrete and abstract nouns, and grammatically into count nouns and mass nouns....

In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of the characteristic features of its referent...