to turn a word that is a verb or other part of speech into a noun, for example in the phrase "a big ask"Then this verb was nouned into "tasking" to mean "the tasks that one ha [..]

late 14c., from Anglo-French noun "name, noun," from Old French nom, non (Modern French nom), from Latin nomen "name, noun" (see name (n.)). Old English used name to mean "nou [..]

A word used to represent people, places, things and feelings. eg child, children, city, Dubbo, happiness, history

A word used as the name or designation of a person or thing, such as 'duck' or 'river'. Abstract nouns denote abstract properties, such as 'invisibility', 'gentlenes [..]

A word used to represent people, places, ideas and things. Nouns used to name any one of a class of things are known as common nouns, for example girl, classroom, egg. Nouns used to name a place, a pe [..]

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A noun is a word that signifies a person, place, thing, idea, action, condition, or quality. The nouns in these two sentences are in italics.

The name of a person, thing or quality.  Types of noun include: common or concrete nouns (man, cat), proper nouns (London, John Bull), abstract nouns (love, hate) and collective nouns (flock, group).

(n) a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action(n) the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in appos [..]

A word that names a person, place, object, event, idea, or activity.

(substantiv): one of the lexical word classes; a 'naming word'. A noun is used to refer to people and things as well as to abstract ideas and phenomena. E.g. boy, human, cat, book, house, wa [..]

phrase (nomenfrase): a phrase with a noun (or a pronoun) as its head. In addition to the head, a noun phrase may contain one or more determiners, premodifiers and postmodifiers. Examples:

a word denoting anything that can be named, usually an object, person, place, idea, or action.

One of the major parts of speech which refers to objects in the non-linguistic world or to notions which are regarded as forming entities parallel to real-world objects, e.g. by showing the property o [..]

(part of speech) any concrete or abstract thing, including people, places, objects, characteristics, and ideas.

part of speech (subject or object) that names a person, place, thing, quality, quantity, or concept (see "proper and compound noun")

  Any of the category of words used to designate a person, place, thing, idea, quality, or action, such as Charles, Pittsburgh, grapefruit, privacy, durability, arrival.  Nouns may be singular or plur [..]

(grammar,narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including Engl [..]