common nouns
- plural of common noun.
Example Sentences
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The email, though clogged with needlessly capitalized common nouns, is worth reading as written:
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2023
Chaser understood that words have independent meaning and understood common nouns as well as proper nouns, Bianchi said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2019
And Spanish, unlike English, has gendered common nouns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2016
Nor did the researchers see significant changes in how often research papers used a list of ‘neutral’ words, and another list of 100 randomly chosen common nouns and adjectives.
From Nature ● Dec. 13, 2015
When I was younger, Mom pasted dozens of words on it, but I was still limited to only a handful of common nouns, verbs, and adjectives, some names, and a bunch of smiley faces.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
