proper noun

Example Sentences

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Today, the Department of Defense remains an appropriately capitalized proper noun.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2021

Zoom is 2020’s most prevalent eponym: a word derived from a proper noun, in this case, the name of a video-conferencing company.

From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2020

So then if we’re talking about black people, then it should be treated as a proper noun.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2020

From the back end of one century to the front part of the next, everyone who spent any time with college football came to know precisely the meaning of the proper noun “Spurrier.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2015

She moved through our classroom as coolly as if Khesanh were just a proper noun in a sentence that needed to be diagrammed.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt