Noun – Definition & Types

Noun: It refers to persons, animals, places, things, ideas, or events, etc.

Types of Nouns

• Proper Noun
• Common Noun
• Abstract Noun
• Concrete Noun
• Countable Noun
• Non-countable Noun
• Collective Noun
• Compound Noun

Proper Noun: refers only to a single person, place, or thing and there is no common name for it. always begins with a capital letter.

Example:

• • Bengaluru – it refers to only one particular city
  • John – refers to a particular person

Common Noun: A common noun is a name for something which is common for many things, person, or places. It encompasses a particular type of things, person, or places.

Example:

• • Country – it can refer to any country
  • City – can refer to any city like Bengaluru, Mumbai,  etc.

Abstract Noun: is a word for something that cannot be seen but is there. It has no physical existence. Generally, it refers to ideas, qualities, and conditions.

Example: Truth, Lies, happiness, sorrow, time, friendship, humour, patriotism, etc.

Concrete Noun: is the exact opposite of abstract noun. It refers to the things we see and have a physical existence.

Example: Chair, table, bat, ball, water, money, sugar, etc.

Countable Noun: The nouns that can be counted are called countable nouns. Countable nouns can take an article: a, an, the.

Example: Chair, table, bat, ball, etc.

Non-countable Noun: The nouns that cannot be counted are called non-countable nouns.

Example: Water, sugar, oil, salt, etc.

Collective Noun: A collective noun is a word for a group of things, people, or animals, etc.

Example: family, team, jury, cattle, etc.

Compound Noun: two or three nouns appear together, or even with other parts of speech, and create idiomatic compound nouns. Idiomatic means that those nouns behave as a unit and, to a lesser or greater degree, amount to more than the sum of their parts.

Example: six-pack, five-year-old, and son-in-law, snowball, mailbox, etc.