noun
IPA: nˈaʊn
noun
- (grammar, narrow sense) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
- (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
- (computing) An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
- A department of the West Region, Cameroon.
verb
- (transitive) To convert a word to a noun.
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