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n.   Abbr. n.
  1. The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive.
  2. Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as neighbor, window, happiness, or negotiation.


[Middle English, name, noun, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin nōmen (translation of Greek onoma, name, noun); see n-men- in Indo-European roots.]

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