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noun \'nau.n\ n [ME nowne, fr. AF noun name, noun fr. OF nom, fr. L nomen)] 
   often attribX - more at NAME 1: a word that is the name of a subject or 
   discourse (as a person, animal,  plant, place, thing, substance, quality, 
   idea, action, or state) and that in languages with grammatical number, 
   case, and gender is inflected for number and case but has inherent gender 
   2: a word except a pronoun used in a sentence as subject or object of a ver 
   b, as object of a preposition, or as a name in some absolute constructions 
   or in the predicate after a copula