common noun
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noun (or noun phrase) that primarily refers to a class of entities or instances
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- noun
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- equivalent class
- purl.org/linguistics/gold/CommonNoun
- opposite of
- proper noun
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Encyclopedic overview
In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, like living creatures, places, actions, events, qualities, states of existence, and ideas. To summarize this, nouns signify an object or idea. A noun may serve as an object or subject within a phrase, clause, or sentence.
In linguistics, nouns constitute a lexical category (part of speech) defined according to how its members combine with members of other lexical categories. The syntactic occurrence of nouns differs among languages.
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