- 1nA2/naʊn/名詞
A word that names a person, a place, a thing, a feeling, or an idea.
示範例句 · Example
In English class, Mei learned that dog, city, and joy are all nouns.
逐字在英文課上，美學到 dog、city 和 joy 都是名詞。
noun 的核心意思是「名詞」，也就是替世界上的東西取名字的字：人（teacher）、地方（Taipei）、東西（bike）、感覺或想法（joy、freedom）。noun 可以想成從「名字」長出來——它的老祖宗是拉丁文 nomen，就是「名字」的意思，所以會替東西命名的字就叫 noun。跟 verb 對照最好懂：noun 說的是「是什麼」，verb 說的是「做什麼」，例如 The dog runs. 裡 dog 是 noun，runs 是 verb。
常見搭配
proper noun
專有名詞
a noun that names one particular person, place, or thing, written with a capital letter
Sam wrote his own name as an example of a proper noun.
common noun
普通名詞
a noun that names any one of a kind of person, place, or thing
City is a common noun, but Taipei is a proper noun.
abstract noun
抽象名詞
a noun for something you cannot touch or see, like a feeling or an idea
Kindness and freedom are abstract nouns.
collective noun
集合名詞
a noun that names a group of people or things as one unit
Family, team, and class are all collective nouns.
plural noun
複數名詞
the form of a noun that means more than one
The plural noun for child is children, not childs.
noun phrase
名詞片語
a group of words that works together like a single noun
In the sentence "The tall boy sang," the words the tall boy make a noun phrase.
意思相近
naming wordsubstantive
core核心畫面
Picture pointing at something and giving it a name — a dog, , a cup, fear, freedom. Notice the last two: you cannot point at them, yet English still treats them as things you can name, count sometimes, and put in front of a verb. That is what makes a noun a noun — not whether you can touch it, but whether the language handles it as a thing.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Nounname
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A department of the West Region, Cameroon.
nounnoun/naʊn/
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA 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.
- 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.”
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archaicgrammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsEither 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.
- 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.
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computingengineeringmathematicsAn object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
- 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.
nounverb/naʊn/
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To convert a word to a noun.
- What is not clear is how the nouning of verbs supports Simon's assumed correspondence between mechanical designing and intentional human responses. Is it the very nouning of verbs which indicates that the above correspondence exists?
- For example, that females are different from but equal to males is oxymoronic by virtue of the nouned status of female and male as kinds of persons.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。