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noun

/naʊn/ noun A2
  1. 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.
  2. An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.

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He also replaced the letter c with an s in certain nouns, giving rise to American spellings like offense and pretense.
Shaping American English, p. 1 · C1
They began frequently appending a specific vowel to the end of shortened nouns, creating a distinctive morphological quirk that produced quintessential terms remaining absolutely ubiquitous in contemporary conversations today.
The Evolution of the Australian Voice, p. 1 · C2

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