| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  noun |
| NOUN: | 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. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, name, noun, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin n men (translation of Greek onoma, name, noun). See n -men- in Appendix I.
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