Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun noun

2 senses of noun

Sense 1
noun -- (a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action)
       => content word, open-class word -- (a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned)
       => substantive -- (any word or group of words functioning as a noun)

Sense 2
noun -- (the word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition)
       => major form class -- (any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar)