nouns
People, places, things
Nouns are the part of speech that names things—people, places, objects, ideas, qualities.
In traditional grammar, nouns serve as subjects and objects: The dog chased the ball.
English nouns take plurals and possessives but lack the elaborate case systems of languages like Latin or German.
The term extends to any word functioning as a noun: Running is good exercise.
Widespread and unremarkable
- properSocially appropriate
- collectiveJointly organized group
- concreteSolid building mixture
- abstractCondensed version of text
countable · uncountable · mass · animate · inanimate · singular · plural · possessive
Matter under discussion
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
- verbAction-expressing word
- adjectiveNoun-describing word type
- articleWritten piece or grammatical word
preposition · conjunction · clause · phrase · determiner · modifier · complement · inflection
Abstract mental construct
- ideaMental formation
- thoughtMental concept or reflection
- notionImprecise mental impression
- abstractionDistilling to essential qualities
perception · understanding · conception · category · meaning · reference · entity · thing
Vocabulary of a language
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- etymologyWord origin study
pragmatics · phonology · semiotics · philology · signifier · denotation · connotation · nominalization
common
Widespread and unremarkable
- properSocially appropriate
- collectiveJointly organized group
- concreteSolid building mixture
abstract · countable · uncountable · mass · animate · inanimate · singular · plural · possessive · verbal
subject
Matter under discussion
article · preposition · conjunction · clause · phrase · determiner · modifier · complement · inflection · declension
concept
Abstract mental construct
abstraction · perception · understanding · conception · category · meaning · reference · entity · thing · object
lexicon
Vocabulary of a language
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
etymology · pragmatics · phonology · semiotics · philology · signifier · denotation · connotation · nominalization · lexeme
group
Assembled collection of things
pack · troop · gaggle · bevy · covey · squadron · fleet · cluster · bunch · array
- English grammarverbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions
- grammardeclension, adjectives, conjugation, verbs, verb
- HindiDevanagari script, verb conjugation, tenses, verbs, adjectives
- Russian languageRussian, Cyrillic, Cyrillic alphabet, cases, declensions
- Norwegian grammarverbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions
- noun typessubstantives, gerunds, appositives
nounsverbs
Words expressing actions
action words · adjectives · adverbs · predicates · prepositions
- proper nounNamed person or place
- compound nounMulti-word single concept
- common nounGeneral name for things
- noun modifierWord qualifying a noun
- collective nounTerm for grouped entities
- noun phraseswords naming things