Phrase Hound found 41 phrases and 6 compound words that contain nouns. The most common are listed below. Open nouns in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 41
- agent nounsplural of agent noun: A noun that denotes an agent (human or nonhuman) that performs the action denoted by the verb from which the noun is derived.
- bare nounsplural of bare noun: A noun used without any apparent quantifier or determiner to modify it.
- collective nounsplural of collective noun: A noun which, though singular, refers to a group of things or animals.
- common nounsplural of common noun: A 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.
- count nounsplural of count noun: A noun which refers to something that can be counted.
- mass nounsplural of mass noun: A common noun that normally cannot be counted.
- material nounsplural of material noun: A noun that refers to a substance.
- plural nounsplural of plural noun: A plural form of a common noun.
- proper nounsplural of proper noun: A word or phrase that is a noun denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, or other individual entity.
- non-count nounsplural of non-count noun: A common noun that normally cannot be counted.
- nouns of multitudeplural of noun of multitude: The name of something that contains many individual things or people. Examples: army, fleet, hundred.
- nouns of assemblageplural of noun of assemblage: The name of an assembly or gathering of similar things or people.
- uncountable nounsplural of uncountable noun: A common noun that normally cannot be counted.
- uncount nounsplural of uncount noun: uncountable noun
- noncount nounsplural of noncount noun: uncountable noun
- abstract nounsplural of abstract noun: A 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.
- action nounsplural of action noun: A noun denoting the action of the verb or verbal root from which it is derived.
- binary nounsplural of binary noun: A type of plural-only noun denoting an object which consists of two parts joined together, e.g., scissors, pants, eyeglasses.
- concrete nounsplural of concrete noun: A noun that denotes something tangible or material, such as a person or place.
- improper nounsplural of improper noun: A noun that describes something general, rather than that which is purely unique.
- invariant nounsplural of invariant noun: A noun in which number is not marked; that is, a noun which does not change form in the plural, such as, in English, fish and series.
- nouns adjunctplural of noun adjunct: A 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.
- numerical nounsplural of numerical noun: A type of noun in Scottish Gaelic used as a numeral, only applied to persons. They exist for the numbers 1-10 only.
- post-nounsplural of post-noun: Following a noun.
- predicate nounsplural of predicate noun: A noun used in the predicate of a sentence with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and that refers to the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb.
Compound words 6
- pronounsplural of pronoun: A 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.
- bloodynounsplural of bloodynoun: Alternative form of bloody noun (“bullfrog”).
- nounselfOnly used in nounself pronoun
- postnounsplural of postnoun: Following a noun.
- prenounsplural of prenoun: A particle which precedes a noun, typically used in the Algonquin languages.
- verbnounsplural of verbnoun: A verb form which acts as a defective noun, having functions similar to the English infinitive and gerund, and the Latin supine.