noun

Example Sentences

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The Spanish noun for them is “desaparecidos,” and English has adapted the word as “the disappeared.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026

The species name populi is a Latin singular noun in the genitive case meaning "of the people."

From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2026

It could literally substitute any noun, including Sulzberger, for Trump.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

It can also be used as a noun.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

Presumably Bill Clinton, who uttered the first sentence while running for president in 1992, would never have said Give I a chance, because a noun phrase next to a transitive verb is obviously accusative.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker