A noun (from Latin nōmen 'name') is a word that generally functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, or ideas.
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• The cat sat on the chair.
• Please hand in your assignments by the end of the week.
• Cleanliness is next to godliness. 查看更多內容

Nouns can have a number of different properties and are often subcategorized based on various of these criteria, depending on their occurrence in a language.
Gender
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Pronouns
Nouns and noun phrases can typically be replaced by pronouns, such as he, it, which, and those, in order to avoid repetition or explicit identification, or for other reasons. For example, in the sentence … 查看更多內容

Word classes (parts of speech) were described by Sanskrit grammarians from at least the 5th century BC. In Yāska's Nirukta, the noun (nāma) is one of the four main categories of words defined.
The Ancient Greek equivalent was ónoma (ὄνομα), … 查看更多內容

Nouns have sometimes been defined in terms of the grammatical categories to which they are subject (classed by gender, inflected for … 查看更多內容

A noun phrase is a phrase based on a noun, pronoun, or other noun-like words (nominal) optionally accompanied by modifiers such as determiners and adjectives. A noun phrase functions within a clause or sentence in a role such as that of 查看更多內容