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Meaning of "common noun" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COMMON NOUN

common noun play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMMON NOUN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Common noun is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMMON NOUN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Proper noun

A proper noun is a noun that in its primary application refers to a unique entity, such as London, Jupiter, Sarah, or Microsoft, as distinguished from a common noun, which usually refers to a class of entities, or non-unique instances of a certain class. Some proper nouns occur in plural form, and then they refer to groups of entities considered as unique. Proper nouns can also occur in secondary applications, for example modifying nouns, or in the role of common nouns. The detailed definition of the term is problematic and to an extent governed by convention. A distinction is normally made in current linguistics between proper nouns and proper names. By this strict distinction, because the term noun is used for a class of single words, only single-word proper names are proper nouns: Peter and Africa are both proper names and proper nouns; but Peter the Great and South Africa, while they are proper names, are not proper nouns. The term common name is not much used to contrast with proper name, but some linguists have used the term for that purpose.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMMON NOUN

common iguana
common knowledge
common land
common law
common lodging house
common logarithm
Common Market
common measure
common metre
common multiple
common oak
common of turbary
common or garden
common partridge
common pleas
common prayer
common ragweed
common room
common sallow
common salt

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMMON NOUN

abstract noun
adnoun
collective noun
concrete noun
count noun
countable noun
disjunctive pronoun
indefinite pronoun
mass noun
noun
personal pronoun
possessive pronoun
pronoun
proper noun
reflexive pronoun
relative pronoun
singular noun
subject pronoun
uncountable noun
verbal noun

Synonyms and antonyms of common noun in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «common noun» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMMON NOUN

Find out the translation of common noun to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of common noun from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «common noun» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

普通名词
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nombre común
570 millions of speakers

English

common noun
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आम संज्ञा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اسما المشترك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нарицательным
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

substantivo comum
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাধারণ নাম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nom commun
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

kata nama am
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gattungsname
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

普通名詞
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

일반 명사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tembung umum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

danh từ chung
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொதுவான பெயர்ச்சொல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सामान्य नाम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cins isim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nome comune
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wspólny rzeczownik
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прозивним
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

substantiv comun
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κοινό ουσιαστικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

selfstandige naamwoord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vanligt substantiv
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vanlig substantiv
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of common noun

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMON NOUN»

The term «common noun» is regularly used and occupies the 69.425 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMON NOUN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about common noun

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMMON NOUN»

Discover the use of common noun in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to common noun and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Grammar: A Student's Guide
COMMON NOUN Relationships For interest specific individual things (such as people and places). Thus London picks out a single particular place. As common nouns are a subclass of nouns, common noun contrasts with all other parts of ...
James R. Hurford, 1994
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English Kumarbharati Grammar,Language Study & Writing Skills ...
(15) Duryodhana - Proper Noun, humiliation - Abstract Noun, silence - Abstract Noun ( 1 6) monarch - Common Noun (17) insubordination - Abstract Noun (18) tea - Common Noun, regions - Common Noun, India - Proper Noun (19) tea ...
Gladwyn Ferreira
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Grammar Simplified, Or An Ocular Analysis of the English ...
Vice is a common noun, neuter gender, third person, singular number, and nominative case to "produces," according to rule i. which says ; (herc repeat the rule.) Produces is an activo regular verb, indicative mood, present tense, third person ...
Jeremiah Greenleaf, 1835
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Intellectual and practical grammar, in a series of inductive ...
Q. The word common, you very well know, means general. Now, we will suppose that in your class there are twelve boys. May not each one of the class be called by the name of boy ? Q. Would you say, then, that boy is a common noun, that is,  ...
Roswell Chamberlain Smith, 1831
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Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: ...
Common-noun as head of a common-noun a. nn(common-noun, common-noun), e.g. bomb attack b. poss(common-noun, common-noun), e.g. oflicer's response c. of(common-noun, common-noun), e.g. door ofa house 2. Proper-noun as ...
Alexander Gelbukh, 2012
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Tarzan and Jane's Guide to Grammar
Any noun that is not capitalized is called a common noun." "Hey, just a minute! Before you said that a common noun is one that is not possessive. Now you're saying that a common noun is one that is not proper. Which is it?" "I agree that it's a ...
Mark Phillips, 2005
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on ...
If a is an NP and ,i a PP and a dominates 0 then a. if the preposition in 0 is 'of then the common noun of a is a DB-property of the common noun (object) of 0. b. otherwise, the common noun of 0 is a DB-property of the common noun (object) of ...
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (9, 1985, Los Angeles, Calif.), Aravind Joshi, 1985
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Take Command of Your Writing
However, when a common noun is used as part of a proper noun, the common noun is often capitalized. The first fire I ever went to was on Castine Avenue. Proper Nouns and Adjectives Proper Nouns Versus Common Nouns A common noun ...
Jill Meryl Levy, 1998
9
Assessing Language - Grade 7
(common noun) 3. That house / burned last night. (common noun) 4. Mr. Smith / bought a new car. (proper noun) 5. Children / play games on the playground. ( common noun) 6. The rabbit / built a nest under the bush. (common noun) 7.
Rosemary Hug, 2007
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Assessing Language - Grade 7 (eBook)
(common noun) 3. That house / burned last night. (common noun) 4. Mr. Smith / bought a new car. (proper noun) 5. Children / play games on the playground. ( common noun) 6. The rabbit / built a nest under the bush. (common noun) 7.
Rosemary Hug, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMMON NOUN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term common noun is used in the context of the following news items.
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CAT 2015: Get ready to face tricky Questions on genders & Plurals …
e.g. Poultry, cattle, gentry etc. while 'People' means a nation as a common noun and can be used in singular or plural both. Example- Indians ... «MBAUniverse.com, Jul 15»
2
Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Alia Bhatt: Check out B-town …
Where one earlier addressed the other as brother or sister, today there are varied forms of this common noun- brotha, sista, bro, sis, so on and ... «Bollywood Life, Jun 15»
3
Person leads Wholestaff into CWS rematch with TCU
... it seems fitting that a reliever with the last name Person, which is pronounced differently than the common noun, will toe the rubber first for the ... «LSU The Reveille, Jun 15»
4
$50 million worth of Maggi noodles destroyed by Nestle
It is only in India that the Maggi brand is synonymous as a common noun for instant noodles. It would take some time to put these ready to eat ... «The American Bazaar, Jun 15»
5
Oh Mama! Sales of iconic instant noodles drop for first time in 4 …
Mama isn't just a brand, it's a national institution and common noun for any type of instant noodle in Thailand. Thus it is perhaps a telling ... «Coconuts Bangkok, Jun 15»
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How Chinese noodles were packaged by a Japanese businessman …
... of the Maggi brand in India means that most people in the country simply use “maggi” as a common noun to refer to instant noodles. «Scroll.in, Jun 15»
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How to Build Real Power and Influence with the Matrix of Legendary …
Influence is not an action verb, and power is merely a common noun that must be joined with a proper adjective. Nearly every leadership ... «LinkedIn, Jun 15»
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Hating the “sinners”: Graphing how Americans talked about sin …
After trying several versions of “sin”, I compared the most common noun (“sinner”) and the most common verb (“sinned”). The graph shows the ... «Religion News Service, Jun 15»
9
Yankees block trademark registration mocking steroid allegations
According to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) decision, “JUICE is a common noun with multiple meanings, used in Applicant's ... «Lexology, Jun 15»
10
Saying goodbye to my father and all the things he loved and hoarded
In essence his hoarding had progressed to the meta-status constituting of a collection of collections (yes, a more stylish common noun ... «Domain News, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Common noun [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/common-noun>. Apr 2024 ».
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