Usually means: Word representing person, place, thing.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word noun:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. noun: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. noun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. noun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. noun: Collins English Dictionary
  5. noun: Vocabulary.com
  6. Noun, noun: Wordnik
  7. noun: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. noun: Wiktionary
  9. noun: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. noun: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. noun: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. noun: Dictionary.com
  13. noun: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. noun: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. NOUN, Noun (band), Noun (department), Noun (disambiguation), Noun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Noun: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. noun: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. noun: Rhymezone
  19. Noun: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. noun: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. noun: MyWord.info
  22. noun: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. noun: Free Dictionary
  24. noun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. noun: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Parts of Speech (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  5. Noun (N): Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. noun: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. noun: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nouning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (grammar, narrow sense) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, word, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (computing) An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
verb:  (transitive) To convert a word to a noun.
noun:  A department of the West Region, Cameroon.

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