Sentence examples for a common noun from inspiring English sources

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Kenning, concise compound or figurative phrase replacing a common noun, especially in Old Germanic, Old Norse, and Old English poetry.

As a common noun, a "tea party" is a gathering where tea is served, or something Alice would attend.

For the record, the word "greenhorn" occurs twice in the book as a common noun, applied to someone else.

Of course there are ways to kick yourself up the rankings, but until you dominate, a common noun name is a liability.

The poetry is alliterative; one of its features is the kenning, a metaphorical phrase used in place of a common noun (e.g., "swan road" for "sea").

A general appellative (i.e., a common noun) capable of being used in reference to a whole class of entities can also be used with an individual reference.

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But I would think of "Tea Party" as more akin to, say, a nickname than to a generic, common noun.

If the meaning of a typical common noun, such as automobile, is considered, it can be seen that it denotes a certain type of vehicle.

As a Semitic common noun baal (Hebrew baʿal) meant "owner" or "lord," although it could be used more generally; for example, a baal of wings was a winged creature, and, in the plural, baalim of arrows indicated archers.

An example of p X, t) is 'is the t-th token in X a singular common noun (NN)?' We divided these p predicates into categories as shown in Table 1.

In some languages, a name is differentiated from an appellative (common noun) by formal means.

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