nouns

• plural

  plural

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

  of noun.
  noun

  noun

  any member of a class of words that can function as the main or only elements of subjects of verbs (A dog just barked), or of objects of verbs or prepositions (to send money fromhome ), and that in English can take plural forms and possessive endings (Three of his buddies want to borrow John's laptop). Nouns are often described as referring to persons, places, things, states, or qualities, and the word noun is itself often used as an attributive modifier, as in noun compound or noun group.

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Change some of the nouns and Rosten’s book reads as if it were published in the 2020s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

In German, you have different kinds of nouns, female and male, and there are ways to be gender inclusive.

From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025

Unlike languages such as French and Spanish, Yautja has no grammatical gender, so nouns aren’t assigned gender categories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025

"We started with the basics - the alphabet, nouns, verbs, present continuous," she says.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024

Zombie nouns, unlike the verbs whose bodies they snatched, can shamble around without subjects.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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