In linguistics,
a
noun
is a member of a large, openlexical category
whose
members can occur as the main word in the subject
of a clause,
the
object
of a verb,
or
the
object
of
a
preposition.[1] Lexical categories
are defined in terms of how their members combine with other kinds of
expressions. The syntactic rules for nouns differ from language to
language. In
English,
nouns
may
be
defined
as
those
words
which
can occur with articles and attributive
adjectives and
can function as the head
of a noun phrase. In traditional
English grammar, the noun is one of the eight parts of speech.
Examples