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Definition of Adnoun
1. Noun. An adjective used as a noun. "`meek' in `blessed are the meek' is an adnoun"
Definition of Adnoun
1. n. An adjective, or attribute.
Definition of Adnoun
1. Noun. (grammar) An adjective used as a noun. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adnoun
1. an adjective when used as a noun [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adnoun
Literary usage of Adnoun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the French Tongue: With a Preface, Containing an Essay on the by Louis Chambaud, A. J. Des Carrieres (1846)
"We also say without the article, but with an adnoun before the noun, ...
The article is used with nouns having an adnoun before them in sentences of ..."
2. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1832)
"AN adnoun is a part of Speech that attendeth upon a Noun, and signifieth the ...
The adnoun is capable of both the Animate and Inanimate forms : and it ..."
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