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Plural of noun

regular plural

The plural of noun is nouns.

Forms of noun

Singularnoun /naʊn/
Pluralnouns /naʊnz/
Countablecountable

Nouns in a sentence

  • Records have been broken, races have been dedicated, dreams have been dreamed, starts have been falsed and nouns have been verbed.2011 September 1, Harry Pearson, “London 2012 can legacy by verbing the noun”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024
  • Thus, in essence, the mouse provides a capability for picking among a set of nouns (for instance, the file to which to apply some action) and verbs (such as "edit" or "insert")2005, Barbara J. Grosz, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, volume 149, number 4
  • In Latin, adjectives and nouns inflect a lot, but inflection is minimally found in Modern English.From the entry inflect
  • English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.From the entry inflection
  • Most first declension nouns are feminine, but a few like agricola and nauta are masculine.From the entry first declension

Meaning of noun

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

Full definition of noun

Questions about the plural of noun

What is the plural of noun?
The plural of noun is nouns.
Is noun countable?
Noun is a countable noun.

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