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noun noun

  /naʊn/ , /næːn/
  • (grammar, narrowly) 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.
 zelfstandig naamwoord, naamwoord, substantief
  • (grammar, now, rare, loosely) 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.
 naamwoord
proper noun
eigennaam
common noun
soortnaam
collective noun
verzamelnaam, collectivum
action noun
naamwoord van handeling
noun substantive
zelfstandig naamwoord
predicate noun
predicaatssubstantief
noun phrase
nominale constituent
verbal noun
verbaalnomen, verbaalsubstantief
abstract noun
abstract substantief, abstractum
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