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Definition of Proper noun
1. Noun. A noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized.
Definition of Proper noun
1. Noun. A noun denoting a particular person, place, organization, ship, animal, event, or other individual entity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proper Noun
Literary usage of Proper noun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (1851)
"Hence its effect upon a particular name, or proper noun, is directly the reverse of
... On the contrary, it extends the particular idea of the proper noun, ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1903)
"(*) The broad line of distinction between proper nouns and common nouns is found
in the fact that the proper noun is almost (but not entirely), an arbitrary ..."
3. Syntax of Early Latin by Charles Edwin Bennett (1914)
"Inc. 259, in arce Athenis statio mea nunc placet, we have a proper noun, in
apposition with a common noun, used as an attributive modifier ; CIL, i, 198,17, ..."
4. English Grammar Simplified: Its Study Made Easy by James Champlin Fernald (1916)
"CORRESPONDENCE OF COMMON AND proper nounS As every individual object does belong
to some class, every proper noun has some common noun corresponding to it, ..."
5. An Advanced English Grammar: With Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley (1913)
"A proper noun is the name of a particular person, place, or thing. ... A common
noun becomes a proper noun when used as the particular name of a ship, ..."
6. An Advanced English Grammar: With Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley (1913)
"A proper noun is the name of a particular person, place, or thing. ... A common
noun becomes a proper noun when used as the particular name of a ship, ..."
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