noun /naʊn/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Anglo-French; Origin: 'name, noun', from Old French nom, from Latin nomen; ⇒ nominal]
a word or group of words that represent a person (such as ‘Michael’, ‘teacher’, or ‘police officer’), a place (such as ‘France’ or ‘school’), a thing or activity (such as ‘coffee’ or ‘football’), or a quality or idea (such as ‘danger’ or ‘happiness’). Nouns can be used as the subject or object of a verb (as in ‘The teacher arrived’ or ‘We like the teacher’) or as the object of a preposition (as in ‘good at football’).
⇒ common noun, count noun, proper noun

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ADJ. plural, singular ‘Sheep’ is both a singular and plural noun.
countable | mass, uncountable | feminine, masculine, neuter Most feminine nouns in Polish end in the letter ‘a’.
common, proper Proper nouns begin with a capital letter.
abstract, concrete ‘Happiness’ is an abstract noun. ‘Car’ is a concrete noun.
collective ‘Flock’ is a collective noun.
VERB + NOUN decline, inflect English nouns are not usually inflected.
modify, qualify a prepositional phrase qualifying a noun
follow The noun is followed by an intransitive verb.
precede an adjective preceding the noun
NOUN + VERB end in sth Most English plural nouns end in an ‘s’.
follow sth | precede sth
NOUN + NOUN class, phrase

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