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Common noun   /kˈɑmən naʊn/   Listen
Common noun

noun
1.
A noun that denotes any or all members of a class.





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"Common noun" Quotes from Famous Books



... of de-assimilation takes other forms, one of the most common of which is the restoring their foreign plural forms to words borrowed from Greek, Latin, and Italian. No common noun is genuinely assimilated into our language and made available for the use of the whole community until it has an English plural, and thousands of indispensable words have been thus incorporated. We no longer write ...
— Society for Pure English, Tract 3 (1920) - A Few Practical Suggestions • Society for Pure English
... as, girl, Sarah. The name girl is held in common by all girls, and hence does not distinguish one girl from another. The name Sarah is not thus held in common; it does distinguish one girl from other girls. Any name which belongs in common to all things of a class we call a Common Noun; and any particular name of an individual, distinguishing this individual from others of its class, we call a Proper Noun. The "proper, or individual, names" which in Rule 1, Lesson 8, you were told to begin with capital letters are ...
— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg


Words linked to "Common noun" :   verbal noun, noun, adnoun, proper noun, deverbal noun


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