common_noun
英语
名词
- 普通名词
- 2001,Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, 页号15:
- The Butlers had been serving the Fowls for centuries. It had always been that way. Indeed, there were several eminent linguists of the opinion that this was how the common noun had originated.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
使用注意
在英语中,大多数的普通名词前面可加不定冠词,但也有例外(如一般不说“there is a molybdenum on earth”,而是说“there is molybdenum on earth”),许多普通名词首字母不大写,也有首字母大写的情况(如Frenchman)。首字母是否大写不是区分普通名词和专有名词的依据。
近义词
- appellative, appellative noun, nomen appellativum, noun substantive common
反义词
参见
- abstract noun
- concrete noun
- collective noun
- proper noun