noun

as in nominal
as in nominal The word "dog" is a noun.

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Recent Examples of noun Little Dog asks, an insipid comparison that illuminates only the fungibility of abstract nouns. Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025 Even brands, once nouns wrapped in mythology, are being reconstituted as verbs. Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025 Other statements, or parts of them, litter the stages: nouns and verbs and objects, all of which can be re-arranged to change the rules of said stage. Joshua Rivera, Vulture, 6 May 2025 Beginning in 2006, and against conventional wisdom, Li envisioned a dataset of images covering every noun in the English language. IEEE Spectrum, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for noun
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substantive
Noun
  • First Acts: From the symbolic to the substantive, here is a look at what nine new governors elected last year have done in their first weeks in office.
    Maggie Astor, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • With his substantive, agreeably granular bass, David Grogan gave prophetic warnings real authority.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2022

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“Noun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noun. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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