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  • ...ics)|cognate]] with ''name''.<ref>http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=noun</ref> Although the popular understanding of what a noun is assumes that they are simply words that refer to 'things' in the world,
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  • #REDIRECT [[English noun]]
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  • ...lasses according to an extensive set of rules relating to the form of each noun: for example, nouns ending ''-age'' almost always belong to one class, perh ..., living or non-living, and so on. This means that while, for example, the noun ''man'' will usually be found in a class that includes recognisably 'male'
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  • #REDIRECT [[English noun/Approval]]
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  • The '''[[noun]]''' in '''[[English language|English]]''' is a [[linguistics|linguistic]] ...sh language|English]], for instance, it is not obvious whether 'bank' is a noun or a verb until it is used in a larger [[phrase]] or sentence of the [[lang
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  • ''Works cited in the [[noun class]] article''
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  • ...n; commonly known as 'grammatical gender', but many languages have several noun classes.
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  • {{r|Noun class}} {{r|English noun}}
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  • {{r|Noun}} {{r|Noun class}}
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  • Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Noun class]]. Needs checking by a human. {{r|Noun}}
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  • The normal way to form a plural noun in '''English''' is to add the [[suffix]] -'''s''', which changes into -''' ...are not included if their plural endings are the same as that of the root noun: for example the plural of '''snôwmán''' is '''snôwmén'''.
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  • A pro-form that substitutes for a noun (or noun phrase) with or without a determiner, such as ''you'' and ''they'' in Engli
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  • {{r|Noun class}} {{r|English noun}}
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  • {{r|Noun}} {{r|Noun class}}
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  • #REDIRECT [[Noun]]
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  • #REDIRECT [[noun class]]
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  • #REDIRECT [[English noun]]
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  • #REDIRECT [[noun class]]
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  • #REDIRECT [[noun class]]
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  • ...cified purpose (such as "sinking fund" for the repayment of a debt). (ii) (noun) A professionally managed collection of [[asset (finance)|financial assets]
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  • #REDIRECT [[English noun/Approval]]
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  • Collective noun for a group of domestic [[cat]]s
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  • In linguistics, the '''grammatical number''' of a [[noun]], [[verb]], [[pronoun]] or other part of speech, communicates some informa ==Subject noun and verb number agreement==
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  • A type of word that signals an upcoming noun and may provide additional information about it.
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  • #REDIRECT [[English noun/Catalogs/English irregular nouns]]
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  • #REDIRECT [[English noun/Catalogs/English irregular nouns]]
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  • ...n; commonly known as 'grammatical gender', but many languages have several noun classes.
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  • Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Noun class]]. Needs checking by a human. {{r|Noun}}
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  • {{rpl|Noun class|Grammatical gender}}
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  • (Noun) The configuration of headings, body text and other items that make up a pr
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  • Czech [[noun]]s are divided into three [[noun class|genders]]: masculine (''mužský rod''), feminine (''ženský rod''),
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  • ''Works cited in the [[noun class]] article''
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  • ''Sex'' (noun) indicates membership in a biological or physiological or group such as mal
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  • {{r|Respect (noun)}}
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  • ...lasses according to an extensive set of rules relating to the form of each noun: for example, nouns ending ''-age'' almost always belong to one class, perh ..., living or non-living, and so on. This means that while, for example, the noun ''man'' will usually be found in a class that includes recognisably 'male'
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  • ...ics)|cognate]] with ''name''.<ref>http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=noun</ref> Although the popular understanding of what a noun is assumes that they are simply words that refer to 'things' in the world,
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  • {{r|Noun class}} {{r|Noun}}
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  • The word '''thoroughbred''' is used as an adjective and as a noun. It can mean:
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  • [[Noun class]]<br />
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  • ''noun, verb'' '''státic cf. ''adjective'' '''mýstical''': ''noun'' '''mýstic
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  • {{r|Noun}}
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  • As a noun
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  • The '''[[noun]]''' in '''[[English language|English]]''' is a [[linguistics|linguistic]] ...sh language|English]], for instance, it is not obvious whether 'bank' is a noun or a verb until it is used in a larger [[phrase]] or sentence of the [[lang
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  • ...rom exile, thus restoring the [[monarchy]]. Used in apposition to another noun, it typically refers to the rest of his reign. Notably, the phrase "Restor
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  • {{r|Noun}}
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  • ===Noun cases=== Proto-Indo-European is supposed to have had eight noun cases (''see'' '''[[Grammatical case]]''').
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  • {{r|Noun}}
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  • {{r|Noun}}
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  • {{r|Noun class}}
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  • ...nd the word ''munis'' (which has to do with performing services), plus the noun suffix ''-itas''
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  • '''úndergròund''' ''adjective before noun'', ''metro'', one word; otherwise '''under gròund ...se to gô thére?''', however, '''ûse''' *yoôss is an infinitive verb, not a noun. (While no difference in pronunciation is distinguishable, being unvoiced *
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  • *[[Noun]]
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  • {{r|Noun class}}
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  • {{r|Noun}}
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  • cf. ''noun'' '''énvelôpe''': ''verb'' '''envélop
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  • ...template for the creation of something new. The word is used both as a [[noun]] and as a [[verb]]. The term is applied to many different fields of endeav
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  • ''Laigin'' is a plural noun, indicating an [[ethnonym]] rather than a geographic term. The use of the w
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  • {{r|Noun class}}
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  • *[[Noun]]
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  • ...dents about how to form a [[plural]] (e.g. "Add an ''s'' to the end of a [[noun]]"), linguists would be more concerned with placing such changes in the con ...of of speech.' The word ''fish'', for instance, can function as a verb, a noun, or an [[adjective]], depending on its syntactic position in a sentence.
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  • ...ill' as in 'will they ever come?' sounds and also looks exactly like the [[noun]] 'will' as in 'having a strong will' or 'last will and testament'.
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  • ...ition of an [[affixation|ending]] to a [[word]], such as ''-s'' added to [[noun]]s in [[English language|English]]: e.g. ''cat'' would refer to one cat, or ...gular forms are derived from the plural and vice-versa, in cases where the noun refers to more than one unit but functions as a single form, e.g. ''family'
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  • | date = January 1986}}</ref> As a plural noun, however, meaning "holy warriors", it gained currency with Muslim movements
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  • ...on'') which was in turn based on an Italian tale, ''La Cenerentola''. The noun "cinderella" has entered the English language and describes a person who tr
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  • ...s from the same [[Latin]] source as the words [[manor]] and [[manse]], the noun ''mansio'', ''mansionis'', from ''manere'', to remain.
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  • {{r|Noun class}}
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  • {{r|Noun class}}
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  • '''ímpact''' ''noun, affect '''ímplement''' ''noun'', '''ímplemént''' ''verb''
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  • ===The full declension of a noun ending in -'''y'''===
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  • ...compound adjective, a hyphen is such a useful clarifier before a following noun that a considerate writer will include one: '''lóng-håul flîght, fóreig '''stône-thrôwing''' is also a noun, of course, and there are other such combinations of participle and object.
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  • ...language]]s, every sequence of the kind "''x'' is ''y''", where ''x'' is a noun and ''y'' is a predicate, is acceptable. In fact, in the grammar there is n ...ath>\lnot \;\exists \;xO(x)</math>, and thus 'Nothing' never occurs as a [[noun]] or as a predicate.
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  • ...e opposition Democratic Party. The general issue is the use of the proper noun "Democrat" as an adjective, in place of the established adjective for the p The noun-as-adjective has been used by numerous Republican leaders since the 1940s a
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  • ...States)|Democratic Party]]. The general issue is the use of the proper [[noun]] "Democrat" as an adjective, in place of the established [[adjective]] for The noun-as-adjective has been used by numerous Republican leaders since the 1940s a
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  • The abstract noun, ''''mind'''', refers to no observable physical entity, no tangible or mate The verbal forms of 'mind' antedated the noun form according to [[Thomas Szasz]].<ref name=Szasz/> Indeed, the word 'mind
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  • The '''e''' can affect the vowel too, changing '''bāth''' ''noun'' (unvoiced) to '''bâthe''' ''verb'' (voiced). ...' occurs at the end of words: '''déath, bôth, bāth, pāth, dòth, bréath''' (noun, cf. voiced '''th''' in the verb '''brêathe'''); but the common prepositio
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  • <nowiki>*</nowiki>cürst, but can be *cürsid before a noun: '''cürsed <nowiki>*</nowiki>əcürst, but usually *əcürsid before a noun: '''accürsed
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  • The units which are joined by a conjunction could be [[noun]]s, [[adjective]]s or [[clause]]s: Although units such as [[noun]]s or phrases linked by a conjunction are often equivalent in English and s
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  • {{r|Noun class}}
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  • The adjective "strange" and the noun "stranger" may be applied to the behavior of one who is otherwise known. Te
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  • ...d 'rules', such as "[[plural|pluralise]] an [[English language|English]] [[noun]] by adding ''-s'' to the end", is a view that may appeal to [[education|ed
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  • ...Some theologians denied that it was a proper noun, because a true proper noun has direct reference, like a [[demonstrative]], and they thought such direc ...ed by those (especially non-believers) who hold that "god" is not a proper noun, and that the use of the capital is therefore purely a mark of reverence.
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  • ...t]]s and [[whale]]s. '''Bovine''' is the adjective although also used as a noun.
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  • ''noun'' '''ímpact ''noun'' '''cóntract
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  • ''noun'' -síz '''abûses ''plural noun'' '''lîves
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  • ...r''': '''The dóg wágged íts tâil'''. It’s a perfectly logical mistake, as noun possessives do have the apostrophe: '''Pêter shoòk Jâne’s hánd''', an ====The full declension of a noun ending in –y====
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  • '''jŏint''' ''noun, adjective
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  • ...l persons. There is also no [[grammatical gender]], which means that all [[noun]]s have the same [[article (grammar)|article]] (''la''). All nouns end in '
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  • * {{search link|vist||ns0|ns14|ns100}} (visit, vista, Vist [proper noun])
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  • ...', the position vector of the electron.<ref> Here "orbital" is used as a ''noun''. In [[quantum mechanics]], the ''adjective'' orbital is often used as a s Orbit is an old noun introduced by [[Johannes Kepler]] in 1609 to describe the trajectories of t
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  • ...earch link|"knifes"|knifes|ns0|ns14|ns100}} (knifes [verb]; knives [plural noun])
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  • '''fåll-òut''' ''noun '''fàraway''' ''adjective before noun'', one word, cf. '''ít’s toô fàr awây
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  • ...ackberry'' appears to be formed from the [[adjective]] ''black'' and the [[noun]] ''berry'', yet not all berries that are black are [[blackberry|blackberri
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  • '''rámpâge''' ''noun, verb '''rationàle''' ''noun'' -sh-
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  • |bïrth<ref>A noun, usable as an adjective: '''bïrth pángs'''.</ref> |frîght (*frîte) ''noun''<br>frít ''adjective''
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  • '''hándout''' ''noun'' one word '''hándôver''' ''noun'' one word
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  • ...s)|stress]] (''rebel'', out of [[context]], could be the [[verb]] or the [[noun]]), and the [[Japanese language|Japanese]] [[mora]] system does not record
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  • ...guistics)|article]]s, as clitics because they are dependent on a following noun, though [[adjective]]s can stand between them.</ref> In [[writing]], units ...e. The word 'noun' certainly refers to nouns, but as itself qualifies as a noun, it references itself at the same time. 'Useful', admittedly a useful word
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  • '''gáses''' ''noun'' = '''gásses''' ''verb '''gétaway''' ''adjective and noun'' one word, cf. ''verb'' '''gét awây
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  • ...conjugation|conjugating]] for [[verb]]s and [[declension|declining]] for [[noun]]s and [[adjective]]s.
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  • ...ethod that I like to use. I try to make my topic into a singular noun (no noun phrases). "Dog" instead of "Dogs" or "Dogs of the Australian outback". So
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  • ...ct and confused. The word is first attested in literature around 1548 as a noun, and 1581 as a verb. It is related to the much older word 'blear' (c. 1300)
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  • '''pâtent''' ''adjective, noun'', '''pátent''' ''noun'' '''pâyback''' ''noun'' one word
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  • ''noun'' '''rébel ''noun'' '''spoônful
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  • The term '''Media''' comes from a the plural of the Latin noun "medium," meaning 'in the midst' or 'an intervening space'. It has come int
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  • ''noun, verb'' '''loôm
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  • ...elated the full sentence in "The army assaulted the city" to the complex [[noun]] phrase in "The army's assault of the city caused much grief". ...d "passive" had applied. Passive stipulated that the Deep Structure object noun phrase be moved to the subject position, inserted the passive auxiliary, an
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  • * [[dependant]] (British variant of dependent [noun]) * descendant (acceptable variant of descendent [noun])
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  • ...idethe scope of something. And “discursive”, as the adjective form of the noun “discourse”, denotes a common parlance communicated by the written or s
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  • ...ions. It is most objectionable in contemporary contexts and when used as a noun, as in "the appointment of an Oriental to head the commission". In these ca ...a=oriental Merriam-Webster] Encarta states that when the term is used as a noun it is considered "a highly offensive term for somebody from East Asia" [htt
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  • ...is is difficult to achieve without resorting to obscure words and [[proper noun]]s.
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  • For some writers, the noun poetry and the adjective poetic seem to refer primarily to creative uses of
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