common noun


noun Grammar.

a noun that may be preceded by an article or other limiting modifier and that denotes any or all of a class of entities and not an individual, as man, city, horse, music.
Also called common name.
Compare proper noun.

Origin of common noun

First recorded in 1860–65

British Dictionary definitions for common noun

common noun

noun

grammar a noun that refers to each member of a whole class sharing the features connoted by the noun, as for example planet, orange, and drum Compare proper noun