word-vault/dist/data/cards/no/noun.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "noun",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a word that refers to a person (such as Ann or doctor), a place (such as Paris or city) or a thing, a quality or an activity (such as plant, joy or tennis)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘Car’ is a concrete noun."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Proper nouns begin with a capital letter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Flock’ is a collective noun."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Happiness’ is an abstract noun."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Sheep’ is both a singular and a plural noun."
                },
                {
                    "text": "English nouns are not usually inflected."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most English plural nouns end in an ‘s’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most feminine nouns in Polish end in the letter ‘a’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The noun is followed by an intransitive verb."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a prepositional phrase qualifying a noun"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an adjective preceding the noun"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Language"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["plural", "singular", "countable"],
                "verb + noun": ["decline", "inflect", "modify"],
                "noun + verb": [
                    "end in something",
                    "follow something",
                    "precede something"
                ],
                "noun + noun": ["class", "phrase"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/naʊn/",
                "audio": "no/noun/noun__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/naʊn/",
                "audio": "no/noun/noun__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Latin nomen ‘name’."
}