nouns Definition

any member of a class of words that typically can be combined with determiners to serve as the subject of a verb, can be interpreted as singular or plural, can be replaced with a pronoun, and refer to an entity, quality, state, action, or concept

a noun that may occur with limiting modifiers (such as a or an, some, every, and my) and that designates any one of a class of beings or things

a noun (such as bean or sheet) that forms a plural and is used with a numeral, with words such as many or few, or with the indefinite article a or an

a noun that denotes a homogeneous substance or a concept without subdivisions and that in English is preceded in indefinite singular constructions by some rather than a or an

mass noun

a noun that designates a particular being or thing, does not take a limiting modifier, and is usually capitalized in English —called also proper name

a noun derived directly from a verb or verb stem and in some uses having the sense and constructions of a verb