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proper noun

noun as in substantive

Strong match

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Other players, equally freed from the bother of proper nouns or even definite articles, go by handily expository titles like “first brother-in-law” or “longest friend.”

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Change a few proper nouns and Henson describes my son Mike.

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It can’t decipher proper nouns such as names and places, and sometimes it just gets things wrong altogether.

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Everything began, cosmologists currently think, with a bang — the Big Bang; if it does not deserve to be a proper noun, what does?

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The local names must be Philippine proper nouns that should not exceed nine letters or three syllables, said Sheilla Reyes, a weather specialist at the country’s national meteorological service.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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