Sentence examples for general noun from inspiring English sources

The linguistic world of that time never met a general noun it didn't like, and is there a word that appears more often than the now-vanished "presently"?

For example, names like Big River, Red River, Stony Brook, and Cedar Hill may have their origin in a specific use of a general noun.

It is in this tradition that the term proper noun, or proper name, is used for a name, and noun, general noun, or common noun is used for an appellative.

Some names seem to belong more to the category of appellatives than to the category of names like Colorado in "the Colorado River". For example, names like Big River, Red River, Stony Brook, and Cedar Hill may have their origin in a specific use of a general noun.

Now, if 'being' is the most general noun, there is no noun which refers to being and non-being.

The text leaves it unclear whether it is referring to predication in general, noun predication, or merely introducing a new name for something, since other passages indicate that 'dog' and 'hound' were considered coextensive.

This gets to a larger issue in the language, and to the case of "proprietary eponyms," words that move from corporate brands to general nouns (and even verbs) thanks to their ubiquity.

Nouns are further divided into temporal, locative, and general nouns.

Both locative and general nouns include a subclass of items that are obligatorily inflected to specify the person and number of their possessor.

It's also the general collective noun for birds as well, not just chickens.

One of the nice things about naming yourself after a food is that these are general purpose nouns that don't seem to raise a lot of copyright issues.