Other forms: nouns
A noun is a word that names a person, a place or a thing. A proper noun, a plural noun, an uncountable noun.
The school definition leaks: freedom, journey and Tuesday are nouns and are none of those three. The reliable test is grammatical rather than about meaning — if you can put the or a in front of it and make it plural, it is behaving as a noun.
1nounnounA word that names a person, a place or a thing.
“Our teacher asked us to underline every noun in the paragraph.”
noun is a word class.
Latin nomen means a name. Name is the same word inherited rather than borrowed.
Latin
nōmen — name; noun
Anglo-Norman
nom
Middle English
noun
English, today
noun
From Middle English noun., from Anglo-Norman nom, from Latin nōmen (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from grc-koi ὄνομα. a doublet of name and nomen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA