noun – English noun declension

English noun forms of noun

Noun: noun
Singularnoun
Pluralnouns

Sample Sentences

  • Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed. [2011 September 1, Harry Pearson, “London 2012 can legacy by verbing the noun”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024:]
  • Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.” [2019 September 24, Jessie Yeung, quoting Pope Francis, “Pope Francis loves nouns but is ‘allergic’ to adjectives”, in CNN, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2019:]
  • Q. What is a Noun? A. The Name of a Thing. Q. How many Sorts of Nouns are there? [...] A. A Noun Substantive, and a Noun Adjective. [1753, Thomas Martin, An Explanation of the Accidence and Grammar To the End of the Syntax in which The Grounds of each Rule in the Syntax are laid down in the plainest Manner. Compiled By way of Question and Answer, For the Use of Schools., London, page 1:]
  • A Noun is a word which serves to name and distinguish some thing; [...]. There are two sorts of nouns; one is called a noun substantive, and the other a noun adjective. [1786, Signor Veneroni, The Complete Italian Master; Containing The best and easiest Rules for attaining that Language, London, page 6:]
  • The first part of a compound word is either a noun (substantive, adjective, or numeral), an adverb, or a preposition, and in a very few cases a verb. [1852, Leonhard Schmitz, Elementary Latin grammar, Edinburgh, page 123:]
  • Finally, there are many who limit the parts of speech to the noun, the verb, and the particle; referring to the first, the substantive, the adjective, and the pronoun (including the article), to the second the participle, to the third the remainder. [1856, R. G. Latham, Logic in its application to language, London, page 224:]
  • Greek has the following parts of speech: substantives, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and particles. In this Grammar noun is used to include both the substantive and the adjective. [1956, Herbert Weir Smyth, Gordon M. Messing, “189. Parts of Speech”, in Greek Grammar, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, page 44:]
  • The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.] [1894, B. L. Gildersleeve, G. Lodge, Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar, Dover, published 2008, page 9:]
  • The parts of which the sentence may consist are either inflected words: the noun (substantive and adjective) and the verb, the participle which shares the nature of both, and the pronoun; or uninflected words: prepositions, adverbs, and conjunctions. [1993, Arthur Anthony Macdonell, A Vedic Grammar For Students, 1st Indian edition, Delhi, page 283:]
  • Nouns are the data; verbs are the data transformations, and therefore verbs represent much of the complexity of systems. [1992, Brad A. Myers, David C. Smith, Bruce Horn, chapter 19, in Languages for Developing User Interfaces:]
  • You choose either (1) the verb (change font) first and then select the noun (the paragraph) to which the verb should apply or (2) the noun first and then apply the verb. [2000, Jeff Raskin, The Humane Interface, page 59:]
  • Thus, in essence, the mouse provides a capability for picking among a set of nouns (for instance, the file to which to apply some action) and verbs (such as "edit" or "insert") [2005, Barbara J. Grosz, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 149, number 4:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
3. Proto-Italic *nōmn̥
4. Latin nōmen
5. Anglo-Norman noun, non, nombor.
6. Middle English noun
7. English noun
8. Inherited from Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen. See: Latin Nouns 'nōmen'.

Verbs referencing "noun"

Spanish Nouns nómina.