English Dictionary

noun

IPA（発音記号）

/naʊn/

名詞

古語 広義

(grammar, narrow sense) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

日本語の意味

特定のものや集合体の名前として機能する言葉。人、動物、場所、もの、現象、物質、性質、あるいは抽象的な概念などを表す。一部の狭義の定義では、文法において基本的な品詞の一つとして扱われる。

When learning grammar, it's important to know that 'cat' is a noun because it names a thing.

文法を学ぶ際、『cat』が名詞、つまり人・場所・物・概念の名前を表す語であることを理解することは重要です。

意味（1）

(grammar, narrow sense) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

意味（2）

(grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.

Q. What is a Noun? A. The Name of a Thing. Q. How many Sorts of Nouns are there? … A. A Noun Substantive, and a Noun Adjective.

意味（3）

(computing) An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

Nouns are the data; verbs are the data transformations, and therefore verbs represent much of the complexity of systems.

nouns （ plural ）