English

Etymology

From Latin nomen, name

Pronunciation

• noun, /naʊn/, /naUn/

Noun

noun (plural: nouns)

1. a word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or idea; part of speech (Wikipedia article on parts of speech ). It can serve as the subject or object of a verb. For example a table or a computer.

Synonyms

• name
• substantive

Translations

• Anglo-Saxon: nama m
• Arabic: اسم n
• Basque: izen
• Bulgarian: съществително име n
• Catalan: substantiu m
• Chinese: 名词 (míngcì)
• Czech: podstatné jméno n
• Danish: navneord n
• Dutch: zelfstandig naamwoord n
• Esperanto: substantivo
• Estonian: nimisõna
• Finnish: substantiivi
• French: nom m, substantif m
• Frisian: haadwurd n
• German: Substantiv n
• Greek, Ancient: ὄνομα (onoma) n
• Greek, Modern: ουσιαστικό (ousiastiko)
• Hebrew: שם עצם
• Hungarian:főnév
• Icelandic: nafnorð
• Ido: substantivo
• Italian: nome m, sostantivo m
• Indonesian: kata benda
• Interlingua: substantivo
• Japanese: 名詞 (めいし, meishi)
• Latin: nomen
• Norwegian: substantiv n
• Polish: rzeczownik m
• Portuguese: substantivo m
• Romanian: substantiv n
• Romanica: nomine m, substantivo m
• Russian: имя существительное n
• Slovak: podstatné meno n
• Spanish: sustantivo m (es ), substantivo m, nombre m (Venezuelan; literally: name)
• Swedish: substantiv , nomen
• Thai: นาม , คำนาม
• Turkish: isim
• Vietnamese: danh từ

Related terms

• abstract noun
• collective noun
• common noun
• count noun, countable noun
• mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun
• noun phrase
• proper noun
• nominal

Further Reading

• Wikipedia article on nouns