proper noun
Example Sentences
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Today, the Department of Defense remains an appropriately capitalized proper noun.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2021
Ms. Norris immediately protested to the judges — Nemesis, the goddess of divine retribution and revenge, was technically a proper noun and not an eligible word.
From New York Times ● Jul. 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
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
