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   noun

   /naʊn/

   noun

   • 1. a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun): "converting adjectives to nouns has always been common in English"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin nomen ‘name’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. nounal adjective

   Scrabble Points: 4

   • N

     1

   • O

     1

   • U

     1

   • N

     1

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