noun

(grammar, strictly) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

(computing) An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

A department of the West Region, Cameroon.

(grammar, now rare, loosely) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.

verb

(transitive) To convert a word to a noun.

Roots

nomennoun- · Latin · name

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Where does noun come from?

The word noun breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root noun-, from Latin nomen (“name”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.