| English noun: noun | 
| 1. | noun (communication) a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | content word, open-class word, substantive | 
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 | Narrower (hyponym) | collective noun, common noun, count noun, generic noun, mass noun, proper name, proper noun | 
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 | Part holonym | noun | 
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| 2. | noun (communication) the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | major form class | 
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 | Part meronym | noun | 
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 | Member meronym | declension | 
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