Noun in Scrabble and Meaning

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Is noun a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word noun is a Scrabble US word. The word noun is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

N1O1U1N1

Is noun a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word noun is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

N1O1U1N1

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Yes. The word noun is a Words With Friends word. The word noun is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

NOUN,

3-letter words (2 found)

NON,NUN,

2-letter words (5 found)

NO,NU,ON,OU,UN,

You can make 8 words from noun according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of noun

noun onun nuon unon ounn uonn nonu onnu nnou nnou onnu nonu nuno unno nnuo nnuo unno nuno ounn uonn onun noun unon nuon

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Definitions and meaning of noun

noun

Etymology

From Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen (name; noun). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name and nomen.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /naʊn/
  • (MLE) IPA(key): /næːn/
  • Rhymes: -aʊn

Noun

noun (plural nouns)

  1. (grammar, narrow sense) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
  2. (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
  3. (computing) An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

Usage notes

  • (narrow sense) In English (and in many other languages), a noun can serve as the subject or object of a verb. For example, the English words table and computer are nouns. See Wikipedia’s article “Parts of speech”.

Synonyms

  • name, nameword
  • (sensu stricto) noun substantive, substantive noun, substantive, naming word

Hyponyms

  • See Thesaurus:noun

Derived terms

Related terms

  • nominal

Translations

See also

  • countable

Verb

noun (third-person singular simple present nouns, present participle nouning, simple past and past participle nouned)

  1. (transitive) To convert a word to a noun.

Translations

See also

(converting into or using as another part of speech:)

  • adjectivize/adjectivise, adjective, adjectify
  • adverbialize/adverbialise, (rare) adverb, (rare) adverbify, adverbize
  • nominalize/nominalise, substantivize/substantivise, noun, (rare) nounify, (very rare) substantive
  • verbalize/verbalise, (colloquial) verb, verbify

References

  • noun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

  • “noun”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • non-U

Chuukese

Determiner

noun

  1. third person singular possessive; his, hers, its (used with a special class of objects including living things)
  2. son of, daughter of

Related terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • none, nown, nowne, noune

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin nōmen, a semantic loan from Koine Greek ὄνομα (ónoma). Doublet of name.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nuːn/

Noun

noun (plural nounes)

  1. (grammar) noun (part of speech; a category of words including substantives or nouns in the strict sense and adjectives)
  2. An appellation.

Hyponyms

(grammar):

  • noun substantyf
    • noun abstract
    • noune collectyf, nown collectif
    • nowne appellatiue
  • noun adiectyf

Descendants

  • English: noun

References

  • “nǒun(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

Occitan

Alternative forms

  • non

Etymology

From Latin non.

Adverb

noun

  1. (Mistralian) no

Old French

Noun

noun oblique singularm (oblique plural nouns, nominative singular nouns, nominative plural noun)

  1. Alternative form of nom

Source: wiktionary.org