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Antecedent.+--The most common equivalent for a noun is the pronoun.

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  1. noun The part of speech that is used to name a person, place, thing, quality, or action and can function as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or an appositive.
  2. noun Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as neighbor, window, happiness, or negotiation.

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  1. Middle English, name, noun, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin nōmen (translation of Greek onoma, name, noun); see nŏ̄-men- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English *noun, nowne, from Old French noun, non, nun, French nom = Spanish nombre = Portuguese Italian nome, from Latin nomen, a name, a noun: see name.
 

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/naʊn/
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