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Editorial note

Can we agree to stop using Anonymous as a collective noun?

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a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action

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noun

a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action

noun

the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for noun.

noun

a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action

noun

the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition

Example sentences

Can we agree to stop using Anonymous as a collective noun?

In particular, you find the right verb to go with a given noun, or descriptive adjectives to further chacterize that noun.

Coca-Cola, and Pepsi-Cola were both trademarked with the noun cola.

You're just making a fallacious appeal by putting the scary capital-B "Big" in front of a random noun and acting like that's supposed to mean something.

In vim I could actually use verbs and nouns to determine how I will edit the text in front of me. I now have a language that I can use to edit text rather than editing the text using the most manual of tools and the verbs and nouns combination are only limited by my imagination and the plugins I install.

I'm a native French speaker and speak to anglophones trying to improve their french everyday and the overwhelming majority gets distracted if they don't get the noun genders right, pick the right verb tenses and all sorts of things like that.