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adnoun

American  
[ad-noun] / ˈædˌnaʊn /

noun

Grammar.

  1. an adjective used as a noun, as meek in Blessed are the meek; absolute adjective.

adnoun British  
/ ˈædnaʊn /

noun

  1. an adjective used as a noun; absolute adjective

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Etymology

Origin of adnoun

First recorded in 1745–55; ad(jective) + noun

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Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun.

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It is not, in all cases, easy to determine to which of these classes an adnoun should be referred.

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Participles bear the same relation to verbs, that adnouns do to nouns.

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But that theory which ranks them with adnouns, appears to rest on a sandy foundation.

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