enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: printable list of abstract nouns
  2. ixl.com has been visited by 100K+ users in the past month

    This program is so fun! My kids love it. - Erin Slocum

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. English nouns - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_nouns

    English nouns primarily function as the heads of noun phrases, which prototypically function at the clause level as subjects, objects, and predicative complements. These phrases are the only English phrases whose structure includes determinatives and predeterminatives, which add abstract-specifying meaning such as definiteness and proximity.

  3. Noun - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun

    Similarly, some abstract nouns have developed etymologically by figurative extension from literal roots (drawback, fraction, holdout, uptake). Many abstract nouns in English are formed by adding a suffix (-ness, -ity, -ion) to adjectives or verbs (happiness and serenity from the adjectives happy and serene; circulation from the verb circulate).

  4. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_roots...

    Greek στενός (stenós), narrow, short; + -σῐς (-sis), added to verb stems to form abstract nouns or nouns of action, result or process restenosis, stenosis: steth-of or pertaining to the upper chest, the area above the breast and under the neck Greek στῆθος (stêthos), chest, cuirass: stethoscope: stheno-strength, force, power

  5. Semantic class - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_class

    For example within nouns there are two sub classes, concrete nouns and abstract nouns. The concrete nouns include people, plants, animals, materials and objects while the abstract nouns refer to concepts such as qualities, actions, and processes. According to the nature of the noun, they are categorized into different semantic classes.

  6. Talk:Noun - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Noun

    All the above abstract nouns, i.e. the property of abstract come from abstraction by definition, following the tautological character of languages and word formation. In contrast with concrete nouns, i.e. objects that are deemed to exist as proven by perception, abstract nouns act like shells, both in time and in space.

  7. Abstract noun - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/?title=Abstract_noun&redirect=no

    With possibilities: This is a redirect from a title that potentially could be expanded into a new article or other type of associated page such as a new template.The topic described by this title may be more detailed than is currently provided on the target page or in a section of that page.

  8. Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Merriam-Webster's...

    (noun) Something from which something else originates, develops, or takes form; [24] a mold or die; an electroplated impression of a phonograph record used to make duplicate records. [25] (noun in biology) The substance in which tissue cells are embedded. [26] (noun in math) The arrangement of a set of quantities in rows and columns. [27]

  9. English plurals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plurals

    Abstract nouns: deceit, information, cunning, and nouns derived from adjectives, such as honesty, wisdom, intelligence, poverty, stupidity, curiosity, and words ending with "-ness", such as goodness, freshness, laziness, and nouns which are homonyms of adjectives with a similar meaning, such as good, bad (can also use goodness and badness), hot ...

  1. Ads

    related to: printable list of abstract nouns