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The word "dog" is a noun.
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Recent Examples of noun
Giving a thing a noun means tethering it to meaning, identity, and memory.
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Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
But the real energy comes with those three nouns after the subject.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
Little Dog asks, an insipid comparison that illuminates only the fungibility of abstract nouns.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Even brands, once nouns wrapped in mythology, are being reconstituted as verbs.
—Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
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Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
But the real energy comes with those three nouns after the subject.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
Little Dog asks, an insipid comparison that illuminates only the fungibility of abstract nouns.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Even brands, once nouns wrapped in mythology, are being reconstituted as verbs.
—Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
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substantive
Noun
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First Acts: From the symbolic to the substantive, here is a look at what nine new governors elected last year have done in their first weeks in office.—
Maggie Astor,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2023
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With his substantive, agreeably granular bass, David Grogan gave prophetic warnings real authority.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
23 Dec. 2022
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“Noun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noun. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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