Random word

Get to know Noun better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like substantive. In Dutch this translates to substantief.

Less frequent word

Noun in a sentence

Related words

Noun | Nouns

Noun meaning

  1. A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
  2. Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
  3. An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

Synonyms of Noun

content word open-class word substantive major form class

Related words

Other words often associated with Noun or its synonyms:

word adjective meaningful substantial meaty essential

Noun vertaling naar Nederlands

zelfstandig naamwoord substantief naamwoord

Using Noun

  • The main meaning on this page is: A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English. | Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun. | An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
  • Useful related words include: content word, open-class word, substantive, major form class.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: zelfstandig naamwoord, substantief, naamwoord.
  • In the example corpus, noun often appears in combinations such as: the noun, noun and, of noun.

Context around Noun

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 30.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 13 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

bare 2× count 2× mass 2× verbal 1× terms 1× word 1× seven 1× seventh 1× two 1×

Often after:

phrase 5× refers 2× endings 2× ing 1× substantive 1× adjective 1× came 1× declensions 1× cases 1× manifests 1×

Sentence patterns with Noun

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

of the noun in the 3× a bare noun refers to 2× each noun has the 2× a count noun and the 1× a mass noun 1× and the noun phrase a 1× any other noun 1× as a noun this form 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

each noun has 3× a partitive article 1× armenian is rich 1× brentano argued that 1× case is based 1× consequences of gender 1×

Common sentence endings:

genitive singular form 3× a mass noun 1× a noun represents 1× any other noun 1× but no gender 1× by the noun 1×

Words around Noun

Just before it in the word index:

noumenon 7 noumenal 5 noumea 12 noukin 2 nouhad 2 noughts 7

Just after it in the word index:

nouns 448 nour 38 noura 8 noureddine 6 nouri 27 nouria 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

abbas 549 aboriginal 549 blonde 549 concealed 549 discretion 549 disinformation 549

Corpus analysis for Noun

  • In this selection, "noun" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, bare, count, mass, phrase, refers and endings stand out and add context to how "noun" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include of the noun in the, a bare noun refers to and noun referring. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "noun" sits close to words such as abbas, aboriginal and blonde, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with noun

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Case is based fundamentally on changes to the noun to indicate the noun's role in the sentence. (18 words)

Each noun has the ending –is as a suffix attached to the root of the noun in the genitive singular form. (21 words)

Each noun has the ending –ūs as a suffix attached to the root of the noun in the genitive singular form. (21 words)

Longer example sentences

Correlation between gender and the form of a noun In many other languages, nouns are assigned to gender largely without any semantic basis – that is, not based on any feature (such as animacy or sex) of the person or thing that a noun represents. (44 words)

University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. p. 8. The terms noun substantive and noun adjective were formerly used in English, until the word noun came to refer only to the former type, and the second type came to be known simply as adjectives. (42 words)

For example, in the sentence "The black cat sat on a dear friend of mine", the noun phrase the black cat serves as the subject, and the noun phrase a dear friend of mine serves as the complement of the preposition on. (42 words)

Example sentences (20)

A partitive article is used (and in French, required) whenever a bare noun refers to specific (but unspecified or unknown) quantity of the noun, but not when a bare noun refers to a class in general.

In word order, they are placed in front of a noun in order to specify the relationship between the noun and the verb, adjective, or other noun that precedes it.

This is rather similar to the English verbal noun -ING form, and therefore as a noun, this form can inflect just like any other noun.

University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. p. 8. The terms noun substantive and noun adjective were formerly used in English, until the word noun came to refer only to the former type, and the second type came to be known simply as adjectives.

Her solo project is called Noun, and, to date, Paternaster has released several albums and singles both as Noun and under her own name.

Armenian is rich in combinations of consonants. citation citation Both classical Armenian and the modern spoken and literary dialects have a complicated system of noun declensions, with six or seven noun cases but no gender.

Brentano argued that we can join the concept represented by a noun phrase "an A" to the concept represented by an adjective "B" to give the concept represented by the noun phrase "a B-A".

Case is based fundamentally on changes to the noun to indicate the noun's role in the sentence.

Advertentie

Consequences of gender The grammatical gender of a noun manifests itself in two principal ways: in the modifications that the noun itself undergoes, and in modifications of other related words ( agreement ).

Constraints Some Oulipian constraints: citation ; S+7, sometimes called N+7 : Replace every noun in a text with the seventh noun after it in a dictionary.

Correlation between gender and the form of a noun In many other languages, nouns are assigned to gender largely without any semantic basis – that is, not based on any feature (such as animacy or sex) of the person or thing that a noun represents.

Ditransitive verbs Ditransitive verbs (sometimes called Vg verbs after the verb give) precede either two noun phrases or a noun phrase and then a prepositional phrase often led by to or for.

Each noun has either the ending –ēī or –eī as a suffix attached to the root of the noun in the genitive singular form.

Each noun has the ending –is as a suffix attached to the root of the noun in the genitive singular form.

Each noun has the ending –ūs as a suffix attached to the root of the noun in the genitive singular form.

Early 18th century poetry demanded perfect rhymes that were also grammatical rhymes—namely that noun endings rhymed with noun endings, verb endings with verb endings, and so on.

Examples Below are examples of all the properties of count nouns holding for the count noun chair, but not for the mass noun furniture.

For example, in the sentence "The black cat sat on a dear friend of mine", the noun phrase the black cat serves as the subject, and the noun phrase a dear friend of mine serves as the complement of the preposition on.

For example, the same set of chairs can be referred to as "seven chairs" and as "furniture"; although both chair and furniture are referring to the same thing, the former is a count noun and the latter a mass noun.

For redirect An article ( abbreviated ) is a word (or prefix or suffix ) that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun.

Advertentie

These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:

Common combinations with noun

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "noun" in a sentence?
An example: "A partitive article is used (and in French, required) whenever a bare noun refers to specific (but unspecified or unknown) quantity of the noun, but not when a bare noun refers to a class in general." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "noun" from authentic English texts.
What does "noun" mean?
Noun means: A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
What are synonyms of "noun"?
Common synonyms of "noun" include: content word, open-class word, substantive, major form class.
What is "noun" in Dutch?
"noun" translates to Dutch as: zelfstandig naamwoord, substantief, naamwoord.
How many example sentences with "noun" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "noun", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.