Nouns

A word that refers to a person, place, thing or idea is a noun.Noun is derived from the Latin word "nomen" meaning name. This definition is the semantic definition of traditional school grammar.

Examples: student, peace, Tokyo, team

Kinds of Nouns

PROPER NOUNS versus COMMON NOUNS

A PROPER NOUN refers to a specific person, place, thing or idea. Proper in grammatical usage has a now slightly archaic sense,close in meaning to that of its Latin source "proprius", meaning one's own. Proper nouns name persons, places, mountains, structures, sports teams, decades, newspapers, titles of literary works, musical composition, products, artistic works in various media, etc.

Examples

New York Yankees (sports team)

Mount Fuji (mountain)

A COMMON NOUN denotes any member of a class. They are nonspecific, in contrast to proper nouns, which pick out a specific member of a class. For instance, the common noun book denotes any member of the class of books, whereas the proper noun "The Red Badge of Courage" names one specific member.

Examples

city

teacher

COMMON NOUN

president

mountain

newspaper

movie

PROPER NOUN

President Barack Obama

Mt. Fuji

The New York Times

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