Meaning & use
Nouns
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Words that name people, places, things, or ideas, functioning as the subject or object of a sentence.
See it in a sentence
The teacher asked the students to underline all the nouns in the paragraph.
"Happiness," "city," and "dog" are all nouns.
A note on using this word
One of the core parts of speech in English grammar, nouns can be common, proper, abstract, or concrete.
Words with an opposite meaning
verbs
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