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noun

as in nominal

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

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Recent Examples of noun Many of these outliers can be found just by scrolling through your social media, as celebrities and influencers have become infamous for incredible new spellings of common names, as well as taking nouns and even verbs out of their typical usage and into the nursery. —

Sophie Liza Cannon, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025 Giving a thing a noun means tethering it to meaning, identity, and memory. —

Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025 But the real energy comes with those three nouns after the subject. —

Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025 Little Dog asks, an insipid comparison that illuminates only the fungibility of abstract nouns. —

Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for noun

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substantive

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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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