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

Most of these losses — a single game for the football team, or a playoff series for the other teams — are so distinctive that I could jog your memory with just one proper noun.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2017

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