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List of Nouns

List of Nouns
Written by Rakesh Kumar

List of Nouns

 

List of Nouns: – In this section we will read about List of Nouns in English and what are the examples of these Nouns in English, we will read in detail about all these.

 

In the previous post we have read in detail about Names of Men’s Clothes”.

 

One of the most important types of word within any language, is the noun and this is no different in English.

There is more than one type of noun, and this might seem like somewhat of a complicated concept, so we are now going to break it down so that we can get a better grasp on the various types of nouns and how they are used.

We are also going to be looking at a variety of examples to demonstrate their use and allow us to gain a greater understanding of their function.

 

Nouns List:-

No.-1. List of Nouns that Start with A:-

Ability

Access

Accident

Account

Act

Action

Activity

Actor

Ad

Addition

Address

Administration

Advantage

Advertising

Advice

Affair

Age

Agency

Agreement

Air

Airport

Alcohol

Ambition

Amount

Analysis

Analyst

Animal

Answer

Anxiety

Apartment

Appearance

Apple

Application

Appointment

Area

Argument

Army

Arrival

Art

Article

Aspect

Assignment

Assistance

Assistant

Association

Assumption

Atmosphere

Attempt

Attention

Attitude

Audience

Aunt

Average

Awareness

 

No.-2. List of Nouns that Start with B:-

Back

Bad

Balance

Ball

Bank

Baseball

Basis

Basket

Bath

Bathroom

Bedroom

Beer

Beginning

Benefit

Bird

Birth

Birthday

Bit

Blood

Board

Boat

Body

Bonus

Book

Boss

Bottom

Box

Boy

Boyfriend

Bread

Breath

Brother

Building

Bus

Business

Buyer

 

Most Common Nouns List

No.-3. List of Nouns that Start with C:-

Cabinet

Camera

Cancer

Candidate

Capital

Car

Card

Care

Career

Case

Cash

Cat

Category

Cause

Celebration

Cell

Championship

Chance

Chapter

Charity

Cheek

Chemistry

Chest

Chicken

Child

Childhood

Chocolate

Choice

Church

Cigarette

City

Class

Classroom

Client

Climate

Clothes

Coast

Coffee

Collection

College

Combination

Committee

Communication

Community

Company

Comparison

Competition

Complaint

Computer

Concept

Conclusion

Condition

Confusion

Connection

Consequence

Construction

Contact

Context

Contract

Contribution

Control

Conversation

Cookie

Country

County

Courage

Course

Cousin

Craft

Credit

Criticism

Culture

Currency

Customer

Cycle

 

No.-4. List of Nouns that Start with D:-

Dad

Data

Database

Date

Day

Dealer

Death

Debt

Decision

Definition

Delivery

Demand

Department

Departure

Depression

Depth

Description

Design

Desk

Development

Device

Diamond

Difference

Difficulty

Dinner

Direction

Director

Dirt

Disaster

Discipline

Discussion

Disease

Disk

Distribution

Dog

Drama

Drawer

Drawing

Driver

 

No.-5. List of Nouns that Start with E:-

Ear

Earth

Economics

Economy

Editor

Education

Effect

Efficiency

Effort

Egg

Election

Elevator

Emotion

Emphasis

Employee

Employer

Employment

End

Energy

Engine

Entertainment

Enthusiasm

Entry

Environment

Equipment

Error

Establishment

Estate

Event

Exam

Examination

Example

Exchange

Excitement

Exercise

Experience

Explanation

Expression

Extent

Eye

 

No.-6. List of Nouns that Start with F:-

Face

Fact

Failure

Family

Farmer

Fat

Feature

Feedback

Field

Figure

Film

Finding

Fire

Fish

Flight

Focus

Food

Football

Force

Form

Fortune

Foundation

Frame

Freedom

Friendship

Fun

Funeral

Future

 

No.-7. List of Nouns that Start with G:-

Game

Garbage

Garden

Gate

Gene

Gift

Girl

Girlfriend

Goal

Government

Grandmother

Grocery

Group

Growth

Guest

Guidance

Guide

Guitar

 

No.-8. List of Nouns that Start with H:-

Hair

Half

Hall

Hand

Hat

Head

Health

Hearing

Heart

Heat

Height

Highway

Historian

History

Home

Homework

Honey

Hope

Hospital

Hotel

House

Housing

 

Nouns List (from A-Z)

No.-9. List of Nouns that Start with I:-

Ice

Idea

Image

Imagination

Impact

Importance

Impression

Improvement

Income

Independence

Indication

Industry

Inflation

Information

Initiative

Injury

Insect

Inside

Inspection

Inspector

Instance

Instruction

Insurance

Intention

Interaction

Interest

Internet

Introduction

Investment

Issue

Item

 

No.-10. List of Nouns that Start with J, K:-

Job

Judgment

Key

Kind

King

Knowledge

 

No.-11. List of Nouns that Start with L:-

Lab

Ladder

Lady

Lake

Language

Law

Leader

Leadership

Length

Level

Library

Life

Light

Line

Link

List

Literature

Location

Loss

Love

 

No.-12. List of Nouns that Start with M:-

Machine

Magazine

Maintenance

Mall

Man

Management

Manager

Manufacturer

Map

Market

Marketing

Marriage

Material

Math

Matter

Meal

Meaning

Measurement

Meat

Media

Medicine

Medium

Member

Membership

Memory

Menu

Message

Metal

Method

Midnight

Mind

Mixture

Mode

Model

Mom

Moment

Money

Month

Mood

Morning

Mouse

Movie

Mud

Music

 

No.-13. List of Nouns that Start with N:-

Name

Nation

Nature

Negotiation

Network

News

Newspaper

Night

Note

Nothing

Number

 

No.-14. List of Nouns that Start with O:-

Object

Obligation

Office

Oil

Operation

Opinion

Opportunity

Orange

Order

Organization

Outcome

Outside

Oven

Owner

 

No.-15. List of Nouns that Start with P:-

Page

Paint

Painting

Paper

Part

Passenger

Passion

Patience

Payment

Penalty

People

Percentage

Perception

Performance

Period

Permission

Person

Personality

Perspective

Philosophy

Phone

Photo

Physics

Piano

Picture

Pie

Piece

Pizza

Place

Plan

Platform

Player

Poem

Poet

Poetry

Point

Police

Policy

Politics

Pollution

Population

Position

Possession

Possibility

Post

Pot

Potato

Power

Practice

Preference

Preparation

Presence

Presentation

President

Pressure

Price

Priority

Problem

Procedure

Process

Product

Profession

Professor

Profit

Program

Promotion

Property

Proposal

Protection

Psychology

Purpose

 

List of Nouns by Grammatical Functions

 

No.-16. List of Nouns that Start with Q,R:-

Quality

Quantity

Queen

Question

Radio

Range

Rate

Ratio

Reaction

Reality

Reason

Reception

Recipe

Recognition

Recommendation

Record

Recording

Reflection

Refrigerator

Region

Relation

Relationship

Replacement

Republic

Reputation

Requirement

Research

Resolution

Resource

Response

Responsibility

Restaurant

Result

Revenue

Review

Revolution

Risk

River

Road

Rock

Role

Room

Rule

 

No.-17. List of Nouns that Start with S:-

Safety

Salad

Salt

Sample

Satisfaction

Scale

Scene

School

Science

Screen

Secretary

Section

Sector

Security

Selection

Sense

Series

Service

Session

Setting

Shape

Share

Shirt

Side

Sign

Signature

Significance

Singer

Sir

Sister

Site

Situation

Size

Skill

Society

Software

Soil

Solution

Son

Song

Sound

Soup

Source

Space

Speaker

Speech

Sport

Square

Standard

Star

State

Statement

Steak

Step

Stock

Storage

Store

Story

Stranger

Strategy

Stress

Structure

Student

Studio

Study

Style

Subject

Success

Suggestion

Sun

Supermarket

Surgery

Sympathy

System

 

No.-18. List of Nouns that Start with T:-

Table

Tale

Task

Tax

Tea

Teacher

Technology

Television

Temperature

Tennis

Tension

Term

Test

Thanks

Theory

Thing

Thought

Throat

Time

Tongue

Tool

Tooth

Top

Topic

Town

Trade

Tradition

Trainer

Training

Transportation

Truth

Two

Type

 

No.-19. List of Nouns that Start with U,V:-

Uncle

Understanding

Union

Unit

University

User

Value

Variation

Variety

Vehicle

Version

Video

View

Village

Virus

Voice

Volume

 

No.-20. List of Nouns that Start with W,Y:-

War

Warning

Water

Way

Weakness

Wealth

Weather

Web

Wedding

Week

While

Wife

Wind

Winner

Woman

Wood

Word

Work

Worker

World

Writer

Writing

Year

Youth

 

List of Nouns:-

 

Concrete Nouns

No.-1. Concrete Nouns:-

What is a Concrete Noun?

A concrete noun is a noun which is real or physical, you might think of it as something which can be perceived by your senses.

Examples:-

I hear the music.

Her hands were wet.

Concrete Nouns List

Armchair

Aunt

Ball

Bermudas

Beans

Balloon

Bear

Blouse

Bed

Baby

Book

Blender

Bucket

Bakery

Bow

Bridge

Boat

Car

Cow

Cap

Cooker

Cheeks

Crest

Chest

Chair

Candy

Cabinet

Cat

Coffee

Charlie

Dog

Deer

Donkey

Desk

Desktop

Dentist

Drum

Dresser

Designer

Detective

Frog

Fan

Freezer

Fish

Film

Foot

Flag

Guest

Hamburger

Jewelry

 

Common Nouns and Proper Nouns

 

No.-2. Common Nouns and Proper Nouns:-

What is a Common Nouns and Proper Noun?

 

A – Common Nouns:-

A common noun is a noun which can refer to a general name of an object. This type of noun does not use a capital letter unless it is appearing at the start of a sentence.

Example:

When we read this sentence, all we know is that a man is walking down a street (which is also a common noun) but the identity of the street or the man is not revealed.

 

BProper noun:-

What is Proper noun?

The other type of noun is a proper noun and this is used to talk about a specific person, item or place. The proper noun always uses a capital letter, whether it appears at the beginning, middle or end of the sentence.

Example:-

Graham is walking down the road.

We can see from the use of the proper noun that we are being told about a specific person. Other proper nouns might be the names of towns and countries, for example:

Paris is a large city in France.

Both Paris and France are the proper nouns within this sentence.

 

No.-3. Abstract Nouns:-

What Are Abstract Nouns?

The abstract noun is used to refer to something which is not tangible.

Examples:-

He showed a lot of bravery when fighting the lion.

Sarah has a lot of intelligence.

 

Abstract Nouns List:-

Awareness

Awe

Beauty

Belief

Childhood

Clarity

Cleverness

Confusion

Contentment

Courage

Crime

Growth

Happiness

Hate

Hatred

Inflation

Insanity

Intelligence

Joy

Justice

Kindness

Laughter

Law

Liberty

Love

Luck

Luxury

Maturity

Need

Opinion

Opportunity

Pain

Principle

Reality

Relaxation

Sanity

Satisfaction

Self-control

Speed

Strenght

Strictness

Tiredness

Tolerance

Trend

Union

Unreality

Victory

Wariness

Warmth

Wealth

 

Countable and Uncountable Nouns

 

No.-4. Countable and Uncountable Nouns:-

 

What Are Countable Nouns?

A – Countable Nouns:-

Countable and Uncountable nouns vary from language to language. In some languages, there are no countable nouns. In addition, some nouns that are uncountable in English may be countable in other languages.

Countable Nouns List:-

Apple

School

Student

Picture

House

Tree

Box

Book

Customer

Friend

 

B – Uncountable Nouns:-

What Are Uncountable Nouns

Uncountable Nouns are substances, concepts, materials, information… that we cannot divide into separate elements. They can’t be counted.

Uncountable Nouns List:-

Access

Adulthood

Alcohol

Business

Blood

Botany

Bacon

Chaos

Clothing

Confidence

Compassion

Calm

Cotton

Childhood

Coffee

Danger

Data

Dancing

Distribution

Dirt

Duty

Education

Economics

Equipment

Fame

Freedom

Glass

Grass

Golf

Hair

Hardware

Hydrogen

Hatred

Hunger

Honey

Importance

Intelligence

Industry

Jealousy

Jam

Jewelery

Innocence

Iron

Linguistics

Light

Loneliness

Music

Meat

Nurture

Psychology

Some nouns are both countable and uncountable.

 

No.-5. Collective Nouns:-

What are Collective Nouns?

The collective noun is used to refer to a collection of things or people. They are used to refer to a singular verb and make it as though it were one entity.

Examples:-

The pack of dogs ran wild through the town.

The choir sang loudly in the church.

Collective Nouns List:-

Herd

Pack

Flock

Swarm

Shoal

Group

Crowd

Gang

Mob

Staff

Crew

Choir

Orchestra

Panel

Board

Troupe

Bunch

Pile

Heap

Set

Stack

Series

Shower

Fall

 

Compound Nouns

 

No.-6. Compound Nouns:-

What are Compound Nouns?

Compound nouns are words for people, animals, places, things, or ideas, made up of two or more words. Most compound nouns are made with nouns that have been modified by adjectives or other nouns.

Compound Nouns List:-

Airline

Airport

Aircraft

Armchair

Boyfriend

Battlefield

Briefcase

Butterfly

Countdown

Comeback

Background

Cupboard

Chopstick

Classmate

Daredevil

Daydream

Dragonfly

Everybody

Everything

Fireworks

Football

Footprint

Greenhouse

Hallway

Handcuff

Haircut

Homework

Horsefly

Houseboat

Inside

Moonlight

Myself

Notebook

Overdue

Pancake

Partnership

Photocopy

Raincoat

Rattlesnake

Ringworm

Skyscraper

Sandcastle

Snowboard

Sunshine

Teardrop

Teacup

Teapot

Thunderstorm

Timetable

 

No.-7. Possessive Nouns:-

What are Possessive Nouns?

Possessive nouns are nouns that show ownership or possession. Normally these words would be a singular or plural noun, but in the possessive form they are used as adjectives to modify another a noun or pronoun.

Possessive Nouns List:-

Cat’s toy

Charles’s car

Chris’s exam

Children’s clothes

Men’s shoes

Babies’ shoes

Lemons’ acidity

Owls’ eyes

Sister’s room

Jim’s pen

My mom’s bag

 

What are Regular Plural Nouns?

No.-8. Regular Plural Nouns:-

 

No.-1.Most singular nouns are made plural by adding -s to the end of the singular form.

 

No.-2.The plural form of some nouns that end in ‘f’ or ‘fe’ is made by changing the ending to -V(es).

 

No.-3.When a noun ends in “o” preceded by a consonant, the plural in many cases is spelled by adding -es.

 

No.-4.Nouns that end in ‘o’ preceded by a vowel are made plural by adding -s.

 

No.-5.When the ‘y’ follows a consonant, changing ‘y’ to ‘i’ and adding -es.

 

No.-6.When the ‘y’ follows a vowel, the plural is formed by retaining the ‘y’ and adding -s.

 

Regular Plural Nouns

 

Regular Plural Nouns List:-

car – cars

bag – bags

table – tables

house – houses

dog – dogs

kiss – kisses

dish – dishes

witch – witches

judge – judges

half – halves

hoof – hooves

calf – calves

elf – elves

shelf – shelves

leaf – leaves

loaf – loaves

thief – thieves

wolf – wolves

life – lives

knife – knives

scarf – scarves

wife – wives

cuff – cuffs

knockoff – knockoffs

chef – chefs

belief – beliefs

roof – roofs

chief – chiefs

potato – potatoes

tomato – tomatoes

hero – heroes

echo – echoes

veto – vetoes

domino – dominoes

mosquito – mosquitoes

volcano – volcanoes

piano – pianos

photo – photos

halo – halos

soprano – sopranos

radio – radios

stereo – stereos

video – videos

country – countries

family – families

cherry – cherries

lady – ladies

puppy – puppies

party – parties

holiday – holidays

 

No.-9. Irregular Plural Nouns:-

What are Irregular  Plural Nouns?

Irregular plural nouns are nouns that do not become plural by adding -s or -es, as most nouns in the English language do.

Example:

The plural form of man is men, not mans. The plural form of woman is women, not womans.

 

Irregular Plural Nouns List

 

Irregular Plural Nouns List:-

Aircraft – aircraft

Barracks – barracks

Deer – deer

Gallows – gallows

Moose – moose

Salmon – salmon

Hovercraft – hovercraft

Spacecraft – spacecraft

Series – series

Species – species

Means – means

Offspring – offspring

Deer – deer

Fish – fish

Sheep – sheep

Offspring – offspring

Trout – trout

Swine – swine

Person – people

Ox – oxen

Man – men

Woman – women

Caveman – cavemen

Policeman – policemen

Child – children

Tooth – teeth

Foot – feet

Goose – geese

Mouse – mice

Louse – lice

Penny – pence

Index – indices /indexes

Matrix – matrices

Vertex – vertices

Appendix – appendices

Alumnus – alumni

Corpus – corpora

Census – censuses

Focus – foci

Genus – genera

Prospectus – prospectuses

Radius – radii

Campus – campuses

Succubus – succubi

 

No.-10. List of Nouns by Gender:-

List of masculine and feminine words in English:

Masculine-Feminine

Sir – Madam

Uncle – Aunt

Nephew – Niece

Wizard – Witch

Hart – Roe

Drake – Duck

Lion – Lioness

Priest – Priestess

Prophet – Prophetess

Patron – Patroness

Host – Hostess

Viscount – Viscountess

Shepherd – Shepherdess

Steward – Stewardess

Heir – Heiress

Baron – Baroness

Peer – Peeress

Abbot – Abbess

Emperor – Empress

Traitor – Traitress

Actor – Actress

Benefactor – Benefactress

Hunter – Huntress

Tempter – Temptress

Master – Mistress

Tiger – Tigress

Duke – Duchess

Enchanter – Enchantress

Songster – Songstress

Hero – Heroine

Sultan – Sultana

Czar – Czarina

Signor – Signora

Manservant – Maidservant

He-goat – She-goat

Cock-sparrow – Hen-sparrow

Bull-calf – Cow-calf

Grandfather – Grandmother

Landlord – Landlady

Milkman – Milkmaid

Peacock – Peahen

Giant – Giantess

Count – Countess

Gender of Nouns

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rakesh Kumar