Nouns A person, place, or thing
The word noun comes from the latin word nomen, name, and that is what a noun does; it names.
Mozart
Chicago
Epidermis
A noun can also be the name of a process, such as the beginning.
Proper nouns, like Mozart, are capitalized while common nouns, like epidermis, are not.
rock are names of objects Concrete Nouns
Abstract Nouns freedom are names of ideas
Nouns are singular if they describe individual things and plural if they describe multiple things (Boat/Boats)..
Noun sounds: words often have sounds that echo what they name; bang, slime, crash, trickle, drop, fuzz, and crunch—some of which can also be used as verbs—have an audible relationship to their objects.
visage A classic noun:
The common noun, visage, which indicates the face or the expression on the face, is a classic noun that’s been in literary use for centuries.
“This olde man gan loke on his visage.” -Chaucer, 1385 “Give me a case to put my visage in” -Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet “Mr. Patton’s granite visage seemed to lean toward me like a monument about to fall.” -Robert Penn Warren, All The King’s Men