noun

IPA: nˈaʊn

(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.

Examples of "noun" in Sentences

Shvitz as a noun is a steambath, as Mr. el-Gamal said.
That quality of crawling stealthily is the basis of the slang noun creep.
Is the adjective skeevy somehow related to the slang noun for underwear, skivvies?
A noun signifying many, is called a _collective noun_, or _noun of multitude_; as, the _people_, the _army_.
Surely, in this instance, the plural noun "freshes" is not formed from any such singular noun as "_fresh_," but directly from the adjective, which latter does not seem to have been ever used as a singular _noun_.
Find them, and give the reason.] [Footnote 2: When a noun is modified by both a genitive and an adjective, a favorite order of words is _adjective, genitive, noun_.] [Footnote 3: A modifying genitive often stands between a preposition and its object.] *****