COMMON NOUN


Meaning of COMMON NOUN in English

noun

also common name

: a noun that is used with limiting modifiers (as a or an, some, every, my ) and that designates a being or thing of which more than one specimen exists

in each of the phrases no horse, such a crowd, some water, his courage, a Mozart, the last word is a common noun

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.