Thesaurus results for NOUN

noun

as in nominal

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

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Recent Examples of noun The neuromodulator brand has become a noun, a verb, and a cultural lynchpin. —

Fiorella Valdesolo, Allure, 3 Mar. 2026 Then, there is linguistic play with parts of speech—nouns recently converted to verbs, verbs used as adjectives. —

Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025 As a noun, objectivity is a relatively recent invention. —

Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025 These diagrams break sentences down into noun phrases and verb phrases and then further subdivide them into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and so forth. —

Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 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