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nounhood

nounhood noun: the quality of being a noun.

Noun

nounhood (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a noun.
    • It made occasional forays into nounhood, in fixed expressions like without fail and no-fail.2009 August 9, Ben Zimmer, “How Fail Went From Verb to Interjection”, in New York Times

Origin of nounhood

From noun + -hood.

Words formed from nounhood

Questions about nounhood

What does nounhood mean?
Nounhood means the quality of being a noun.
What part of speech is nounhood?
Nounhood is a noun.

Words near nounhood in the dictionary

  1. noun-self pronoun
  2. noun-self pronouns
  3. nounal
  4. nounally
  5. nouned
  6. nounhood
  7. nounier
  8. nouniest
  9. nounification
  10. nounified
  11. nounifies

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