Phrase Hound found 57 phrases and 16 compound words that contain noun. The most common are listed below. Open noun in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 57
- proper nounA word or phrase that is a noun denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, or other individual entity.
- common nounA noun that denotes any member, or all members, of a class; an ordinary noun such as dog or city; contrasted with a proper noun, which refers to a single named entity, such as Socrates or Tokyo.
- verbal nounA noun that is morphologically related to a verb and similar to it in meaning; in English, it contrasts with the gerund and the deverbal noun.
- noun phraseA phrase that has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun.
- collective nounA noun which, though singular, refers to a group of things or animals.
- abstract nounA noun that denotes an idea, emotion, feeling, quality, generalization, representation or other abstract or intangible concept, as opposed to a concrete item, or a physical object.
- concrete nounA noun that denotes something tangible or material, such as a person or place.
- mass nounA common noun that normally cannot be counted.
- count nounA noun which refers to something that can be counted.
- agent nounA noun that denotes an agent (human or nonhuman) that performs the action denoted by the verb from which the noun is derived.
- noun classA grammatical category similar to gender in which nouns may be organized according to meaning, such as gender, animacy or shape.
- action nounA noun denoting the action of the verb or verbal root from which it is derived.
- noun clauseA clause that is used as a subject or object.
- material nounA noun that refers to a substance.
- attributive nounA noun that modifies another noun (thus functioning adjectivally) and that is grammatically optional; it may be a single word, a compound noun, or a noun phrase.
- noun-self pronounAlternative form of nounself pronoun: A type of third-person singular neopronoun constructed (often as an in-group identifier or nonce word) from a referent noun.
- bare nounA noun used without any apparent quantifier or determiner to modify it.
- adjectival nounA noun used as an adjective.
- plural nounA plural form of a common noun.
- Guelmim-Oued NounOne of the twelve regions of Morocco.
- noun adjunctA noun that modifies another noun (thus functioning adjectivally) and that is grammatically optional; it may be a single word or a compound noun or noun phrase.
- binary nounA type of plural-only noun denoting an object which consists of two parts joined together, e.g., scissors, pants, eyeglasses.
- noun classesplural of noun class: A grammatical category similar to gender in which nouns may be organized according to meaning, such as gender, animacy or shape.
- noun phrasesplural of noun phrase: A phrase that has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun.
- noun clausesplural of noun clause: A clause that is used as a subject or object.
Compound words 16
- pronounA part of speech that refers anaphorically to a noun or noun phrase, which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective.
- nounshipThe quality of a word or phrase behaving as a noun.
- nounyHaving the characteristics of a noun.
- nounalOf, relating to, or acting as a noun.
- nounhoodThe quality of being a noun.
- nounizeTo change (an adjective, verb, etc.) into a noun.
- nounlikeResembling a noun, having nounal characteristics.
- nounnessQuality of being a noun.
- prenounA particle which precedes a noun, typically used in the Algonquin languages.
- nounificationnominalization.