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A noun is a word that names a person or thing. Common nouns name persons or things which are not peculiar to one example, i.e. are of a general nature (bridge, girl, sugar, unhappiness), whereas proper nouns name persons or things of which there is only one example (Asia, Concorde, Dickens). Concrete nouns refer to physical things (bread, woman), and abstract nouns to concepts (greed, unhelpfulness). Some nouns are concrete and abstract in different meanings, e.g. cheek is concrete when it refers to part of the face and abstract when it means ‘impertinence’.

Modern English usage. 2014.

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