Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An adjective used as a noun, such as merciful in Blessed are the merciful.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In grammar, an adjective or attributive word; an adjunct to a noun; specifically, according to some grammarians, an adjective used substantively, as the good, the true, and the beautiful.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Gram.), rare An adjective, or attribute.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an adjective used as a noun
Etymologies
- ad- + noun (modeled on adverb). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It is not, in all cases, easy to determine to which of these classes an adnoun should be referred.”
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