common nouns

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of common noun.
  common noun

  noun

  a noun that may be preceded by an article or other limiting modifier and that denotes any or all of a class of entities and not an individual, as man, city, horse, music.

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common nouns

Surprisingly, the team’s results suggest that at least 10 to 30 quantifiably different concept variants exist for even common nouns such as penguin.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 25, 2023

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

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

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