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The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'
William Safire

Meaning of "noun phrase" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NOUN PHRASE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NOUN PHRASE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Noun phrase 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 NOUN PHRASE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

noun phrase

Noun phrase

A noun phrase or nominal phrase is a phrase which has a noun as its head word, or which performs the same grammatical function as such a phrase. Noun phrases are very common cross-linguistically, and they may be the most frequently occurring phrase type. Noun phrases often function as verb subjects and objects, as predicative expressions, and as the complements of prepositions. Noun phrases can be embedded inside each other; for instance, the noun phrase some of his constituents contains the shorter noun phrase his constituents. In some modern theories of grammar, noun phrases with determiners are analyzed as having the determiner rather than the noun as their head; they are then referred to as determiner phrases.

Definition of noun phrase in the English dictionary

The definition of noun phrase in the dictionary is a constituent of a sentence that consists of a noun and any modifiers it may have a noun clause, or a word, such as a pronoun, that takes the place of a noun NP.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NOUN PHRASE

nould
noumena
noumenal
noumenalism
noumenalist
noumenality
noumenally
noumenon
noun
noun clause
nounal
nounally
nounless
nouny
noup
nourice
nourish
nourishable
nourisher
nourishing

WORDS THAT END LIKE NOUN PHRASE

buzz phrase
carbonic anhydrase
catch phrase
erase
holophrase
metaphrase
misphrase
paraphrase
parrot phrase
periphrase
phrase
polymerase
prase
prepositional phrase
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rephrase
to coin a phrase
transferase
turn of phrase
verb phrase

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

SYNONYMS

Translation of «noun phrase» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NOUN PHRASE

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

Translator English - Chinese

名词短语
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sintagma nominal
570 millions of speakers

English

noun phrase
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

संज्ञा वाक्यांश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اسما العبارة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

именная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sintagma nominal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নায়ক ফ্রেজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

syntagme nominal
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kata nama frasa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nominalphrase
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

名詞句
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

명사구
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tembung frase
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cụm danh từ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பெயர்ச்சொல் சொற்றொடர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संज्ञा वाक्यांश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

isim tamlaması
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sintagma nominale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rzeczownik fraza
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

іменна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fraza substantiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ονοματική φράση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

naamwoordstuk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nominalfras
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

substantiv frase
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of noun phrase

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NOUN PHRASE»

The term «noun phrase» is regularly used and occupies the 62.356 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NOUN PHRASE» OVER TIME

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

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QUOTES WITH «NOUN PHRASE»

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William Safire
The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NOUN PHRASE»

Discover the use of noun phrase in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to noun phrase and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Noun Phrase in the Generative Perspective
Biographical note: Artemis Alexiadou, University of Stuttgart, Germany; Liliane Haegeman, Angellier-Université Lille/CNRS, France; Melita Stavrou, University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Artemis Alexiadou, Liliane M. V. Haegeman, Melita Stavrou, 2007
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Lessons on the Noun Phrase in English: From Representation ...
"Based on Guillaume's theory of the word,... proposes a word-based analysis of the mental operations involved in producing a noun phrase, starting with representing the speaker's message, then relating the words, and finishing with ...
W. H. Hirtle, 2009
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The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English: Structure and Use: ...
This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English.
Christine Günther, 2013
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Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
This book offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing procedures.
Mira Ariel, 2014
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Case Configuration and Noun Phrase Interpretation
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Helen de Hoop, 1996
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Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe
The result of over five years of close collaboration among an international group of leading typologists within the EUROTYP program, this volume is about the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase.
Frans Plank, 2003
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Noun Phrase Licensing
This book examines the syntax of direct object noun phrases in English within the Principles and Parameters, specifically Chomsky's Minimalist Program, approach to generative grammar.
Jeffrey T. Runner, 2013
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The Noun Phrase in Ancient Greek: A Functional Analysis of ...
However, the use and function of the various options have received very little attention. This book tries to fill that gap.
Stéphanie J. Bakker, 2009
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Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase
This is the first typologically-oriented collection on Romani that is devoted to a particular thematic domain that of noun phrase grammar.
Viktor El_ik, Yaron Matras, 2000
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The Noun Phrase in Romance and Germanic: Structure, ...
One of the main aims of this volume is to shed some light on the question of what is similar and what is different in the structure of the noun phrase of the various Romance and Germanic languages and dialects, and what causes this ...
Antonia Petronella Sleeman, Harry Perridon, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NOUN PHRASE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term noun phrase is used in the context of the following news items.
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Errors arising from the duo's release, still
This is a preposition, and a preposition, as we know, usually comes before a noun or noun phrase. The easiest way to correct the sentence is to ... «The Swazi Observer, Jul 15»
2
Two Whoppers Junior, please. With hashes brown on the side
In the noun phrase the house that Jack built, the noun “house” is indeed what linguists call the head and the plural would be the houses that ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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What 'One' Means to a Linguist
... replacement for a whole indefinite noun phrase (When you need a car, rent one); it commonly functions as an anaphoric common count noun ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Jul 15»
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'All' can actually mean 'totality,' 'everything' or even 'nothing but'
It's functioning as an adjective to mean “only” or “nothing but,” and it makes the noun phrase “all we really know” singular in sense. This is why ... «The Manila Times, Jun 15»
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The Most Beautiful Word of All
Another beloved noun phrase is “cellar door.” In a 2010 New York Times column, Grant Barrett noted the many times it's been described as ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Jun 15»
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'Presidentiable,' 'barkada,' 'KKB' officially recognized in Oxford …
... conversions from one part of speech to another (adjectival use of noun phrase high blood), and even complete changes in meaning (gimmick ... «Inquirer.net, Jun 15»
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Competence, Performance, and Climate
Suppose you want to state the facts about how many occurrences of the are found at the beginning of a simple definite noun phrase (NP) in ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15»
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Parsing clinical text: how good are the state-of-the-art parsers?
3) Errors in the non-terminal symbol 'NX': NX was used to mark the head noun within a complicated noun phrase in the annotation guideline. «BMC Blogs Network, May 15»
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Watchwords: Words that make Canadian English distinct mostly are …
Sometimes the Canadianism is a noun phrase: butter tart, fire hall, soft drink (this last is restricted mainly to Quebec, being replaced by pop ... «Montreal Gazette, May 15»
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The 2015 election lexicon: what they said, and what it meant
Noun phrase. Instability following the election of large numbers of Scottish Nationalist MPs; the prospect of an SNP-Labour deal in the event of ... «The Guardian, May 15»

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