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
Words nearby common noun
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