common nouns
Words for anything
Common nouns are the ordinary words for people, places, things, and concepts—words like dog, city, happiness, teacher.
Unlike proper nouns, which name specific individuals or entities and take capital letters, common nouns refer to general categories: a president rather than President Lincoln, the river rather than the Mississippi River.
They form the bulk of English nouns.
Systematic grouping by traits
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- groupingArrangement by shared traits
- sortingArranging into sequence
- organizationStructured group with purpose
typology · hierarchy · categorization · systematization · indexing · codification · arrangement · segmentation
Matter under discussion
- objectTangible entity or aim
- singularOne in number
- pluralMore than one
- pronounNoun's grammatical replacement
article · predicate · clause · syntax · morphology · semantics · lexicon · phrase
Linguistic meaning unit
- termFixed period or word
- terminologySubject-specific vocabulary
- expressionConveyed thought or feeling
- lexiconVocabulary of a language
jargon · lingo · parlance · language · vocabulary · nomenclature · glossary · wordlist
Identifying attachment or marker
- designationFormal name or title
- appellationName or title given
- monikerInformal designation for someone
- titleFormal honorific or name
nickname · tag · handle · alias · epithet · nomenclature · brand · nameplate
classification
Systematic grouping by traits
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
- groupingArrangement by shared traits
- sortingArranging into sequence
organization · typology · hierarchy · categorization · systematization · indexing · codification · arrangement · segmentation · stratification
subject
Matter under discussion
pronoun · article · predicate · clause · syntax · morphology · semantics · lexicon · phrase · modifier
word
Linguistic meaning unit
- termFixed period or word
- terminologySubject-specific vocabulary
- expressionConveyed thought or feeling
lexicon · jargon · lingo · parlance · language · vocabulary · nomenclature · glossary · wordlist · dictionary
label
Identifying attachment or marker
- designationFormal name or title
- appellationName or title given
- monikerInformal designation for someone
title · nickname · tag · handle · alias · epithet · nomenclature · brand · nameplate · surname
- vocabularyword, words, new words, term, terms
- noun typesnouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns, collective nouns, plural nouns
- noun grammarcase, declension, cases, genitive, ablative
- categoriestypes, category, kinds, class, classes
- spellingspelling, spelling rules, spelling patterns, spelling errors, spelling conventions
- grammardeclension, pronouns, adjectives, conjugation, nouns
common nounsproper nouns
Names of specific entities
proper names · proper noun · proper name · personal names · place names
common, commonly, noun, uncommon, commons, uncommonly, commoner, commonality, commonness