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Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
naʊn

Definitions

  1. A department of the West Region, Cameroon.
  2. name
  3. A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea: one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
  4. Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
    archaic, broadly
  5. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
  6. An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
  7. third-person singular imperative
  8. wow!

Equivalents

العربية الاسم
Español nombre
Français noun

Examples

“Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.”
“Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.””
“Q. What is a Noun? A. The Name of a Thing. Q. How many Sorts of Nouns are there? [...] A. A Noun Substantive, and a Noun Adjective.”
“A Noun is a word which serves to name and distinguish some thing; [...]. There are two sorts of nouns; one is called a noun substantive, and the other a noun adjective.”
“The first part of a compound word is either a noun (substantive, adjective, or numeral), an adverb, or a preposition, and in a very few cases a verb.”
“Finally, there are many who limit the parts of speech to the noun, the verb, and the particle; referring to the first, the substantive, the adjective, and the pronoun (including the article), to the second the participle, to the third the remainder.”
“Greek has the following parts of speech: substantives, adjectives, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and particles. In this Grammar noun is used to include both the substantive and the adjective.”
“The Parts of Speech are the Noun (Substantive and Adjective), the Pronoun, the Verb, and the Particles (Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction)[.]”
“The parts of which the sentence may consist are either inflected words: the noun (substantive and adjective) and the verb, the participle which shares the nature of both, and the pronoun; or uninflected words: prepositions, adverbs, and conjunctions.”
“Nouns are the data; verbs are the data transformations, and therefore verbs represent much of the complexity of systems.”
“You choose either (1) the verb (change font) first and then select the noun (the paragraph) to which the verb should apply or (2) the noun first and then apply the verb.”
“Thus, in essence, the mouse provides a capability for picking among a set of nouns (for instance, the file to which to apply some action) and verbs (such as "edit" or "insert")”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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