a word that refers to a person, (such as Ann or doctor), a place (such as Paris or city) or a thing, a quality or an activity (such as plant, joy or tennis) 名词 ‘Car’ is a concrete noun. car 是具体名词。 Proper nouns begin with a capital letter. 专有名词以大写字母开头。
Extra ExamplesTopics Languagea1‘Flock’ is a collective noun. flock 是集合名词。 ‘Happiness’ is an abstract noun. happiness 是抽象名词。 ‘Sheep’ is both a singular and a plural noun. sheep (绵羊)一词单复数同形。 English nouns are not usually inflected. 英语名词通常没有屈折变化。 Most English plural nouns end in an ‘s’. 英语中大多数的复数名词以s 结尾。 Most feminine nouns in Polish end in the letter ‘a’. 波兰语中的大多数阴性名词以字母a 结尾。 The noun is followed by an intransitive verb. 这个名词后接不及物动词。 a prepositional phrase qualifying a noun 修饰名词的介词短语 an adjective preceding the noun 置于名词前的形容词
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- plural
- singular
- countable
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- decline
- inflect
- modify
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- end in something
- follow something
- precede something
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- class
- phrase
Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin nomen ‘name’.