noun
Noun
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A content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action (synset 106330286)
is a type of:
- content word, open-class word - a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned
- substantive - any word or group of words functioning as a noun
subtypes:- collective noun - a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
- mass noun - a noun that does not form plurals
- count noun - a noun that forms plurals
- generic noun - a noun that does not specify either masculine or feminine gender
- proper name, proper noun - a noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized
- common noun - a noun that denotes any or all members of a class
has: noun - the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition -
The word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition (synset 106328855)
is a type of: major form class - any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammarbelongs to: declension - the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languagesis a part of: noun - a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
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