List of Nouns

Nouns List (from A-Z)

List of Nouns that Start with A

Ability
Access
Accident
Account
Act
Action
Activity
Actor
Ad
Addition
Address
Administration
Advantage
Advertising
Advice
Affair
Age
Agency
Agreement
Air
Airport
Alcohol
Ambition
Amount
Analysis
Analyst
Animal
Answer
Anxiety
Apartment
Appearance
Apple
Application
Appointment
Area
Argument
Army
Arrival
Art
Article
Aspect
Assignment
Assistance
Assistant
Association
Assumption
Atmosphere
Attempt
Attention
Attitude
Audience
Aunt
Average
Awareness

List of Nouns that Start with B

Back
Bad
Balance
Ball
Bank
Baseball
Basis
Basket
Bath
Bathroom
Bedroom
Beer
Beginning
Benefit
Bird
Birth
Birthday
Bit
Blood
Board
Boat
Body
Bonus
Book
Boss
Bottom
Box
Boy
Boyfriend
Bread
Breath
Brother
Building
Bus
Business
Buyer

List of Nouns that Start with C

Cabinet
Camera
Cancer
Candidate
Capital
Car
Card
Care
Career
Case
Cash
Cat
Category
Cause
Celebration
Cell
Championship
Chance
Chapter
Charity
Cheek
Chemistry
Chest
Chicken
Child
Childhood
Chocolate
Choice
Church
Cigarette
City
Class
Classroom
Client
Climate
Clothes
Coast
Coffee
Collection
College
Combination
Committee
Communication
Community
Company
Comparison
Competition
Complaint
Computer
Concept
Conclusion
Condition
Confusion
Connection
Consequence
Construction
Contact
Context
Contract
Contribution
Control
Conversation
Cookie
Country
County
Courage
Course
Cousin
Craft
Credit
Criticism
Culture
Currency
Customer
Cycle

List of Nouns that Start with D

Dad
Data
Database
Date
Day
Dealer
Death
Debt
Decision
Definition
Delivery
Demand
Department
Departure
Depression
Depth
Description
Design
Desk
Development
Device
Diamond
Difference
Difficulty
Dinner
Direction
Director
Dirt
Disaster
Discipline
Discussion
Disease
Disk
Distribution
Dog
Drama
Drawer
Drawing
Driver

List of Nouns that Start with E

Ear
Earth
Economics
Economy
Editor
Education
Effect
Efficiency
Effort
Egg
Election
Elevator
Emotion
Emphasis
Employee
Employer
Employment
End
Energy
Engine
Entertainment
Enthusiasm
Entry
Environment
Equipment
Error
Establishment
Estate
Event
Exam
Examination
Example
Exchange
Excitement
Exercise
Experience
Explanation
Expression
Extent
Eye

List of Nouns that Start with F

Face
Fact
Failure
Family
Farmer
Fat
Feature
Feedback
Field
Figure
Film
Finding
Fire
Fish
Flight
Focus
Food
Football
Force
Form
Fortune
Foundation
Frame
Freedom
Friendship
Fun
Funeral
Future

List of Nouns that Start with G

Game
Garbage
Garden
Gate
Gene
Gift
Girl
Girlfriend
Goal
Government
Grandmother
Grocery
Group
Growth
Guest
Guidance
Guide
Guitar

List of Nouns that Start with H

Hair
Half
Hall
Hand
Hat
Head
Health
Hearing
Heart
Heat
Height
Highway
Historian
History
Home
Homework
Honey
Hope
Hospital
Hotel
House
Housing

List of Nouns that Start with I

Ice
Idea
Image
Imagination
Impact
Importance
Impression
Improvement
Income
Independence
Indication
Industry
Inflation
Information
Initiative
Injury
Insect
Inside
Inspection
Inspector
Instance
Instruction
Insurance
Intention
Interaction
Interest
Internet
Introduction
Investment
Issue
Item

List of Nouns that Start with J, K

Job
Judgment
Key
Kind
King
Knowledge

List of Nouns that Start with L

Lab
Ladder
Lady
Lake
Language
Law
Leader
Leadership
Length
Level
Library
Life
Light
Line
Link
List
Literature
Location
Loss
Love

List of Nouns that Start with M

Machine
Magazine
Maintenance
Mall
Man
Management
Manager
Manufacturer
Map
Market
Marketing
Marriage
Material
Math
Matter
Meal
Meaning
Measurement
Meat
Media
Medicine
Medium
Member
Membership
Memory
Menu
Message
Metal
Method
Midnight
Mind
Mixture
Mode
Model
Mom
Moment
Money
Month
Mood
Morning
Mouse
Movie
Mud
Music

List of Nouns that Start with N

Name
Nation
Nature
Negotiation
Network
News
Newspaper
Night
Note
Nothing
Number

List of Nouns that Start with O

Object
Obligation
Office
Oil
Operation
Opinion
Opportunity
Orange
Order
Organization
Outcome
Outside
Oven
Owner

List of Nouns that Start with P

Page
Paint
Painting
Paper
Part
Passenger
Passion
Patience
Payment
Penalty
People
Percentage
Perception
Performance
Period
Permission
Person
Personality
Perspective
Philosophy
Phone
Photo
Physics
Piano
Picture
Pie
Piece
Pizza
Place
Plan
Platform
Player
Poem
Poet
Poetry
Point
Police
Policy
Politics
Pollution
Population
Position
Possession
Possibility
Post
Pot
Potato
Power
Practice
Preference
Preparation
Presence
Presentation
President
Pressure
Price
Priority
Problem
Procedure
Process
Product
Profession
Professor
Profit
Program
Promotion
Property
Proposal
Protection
Psychology
Purpose

List of Nouns that Start with Q,R

Quality
Quantity
Queen
Question
Radio
Range
Rate
Ratio
Reaction
Reality
Reason
Reception
Recipe
Recognition
Recommendation
Record
Recording
Reflection
Refrigerator
Region
Relation
Relationship
Replacement
Republic
Reputation
Requirement
Research
Resolution
Resource
Response
Responsibility
Restaurant
Result
Revenue
Review
Revolution
Risk
River
Road
Rock
Role
Room
Rule

List of Nouns that Start with S

Safety
Salad
Salt
Sample
Satisfaction
Scale
Scene
School
Science
Screen
Secretary
Section
Sector
Security
Selection
Sense
Series
Service
Session
Setting
Shape
Share
Shirt
Side
Sign
Signature
Significance
Singer
Sir
Sister
Site
Situation
Size
Skill
Society
Software
Soil
Solution
Son
Song
Sound
Soup
Source
Space
Speaker
Speech
Sport
Square
Standard
Star
State
Statement
Steak
Step
Stock
Storage
Store
Story
Stranger
Strategy
Stress
Structure
Student
Studio
Study
Style
Subject
Success
Suggestion
Sun
Supermarket
Surgery
Sympathy
System

List of Nouns that Start with T

Table
Tale
Task
Tax
Tea
Teacher
Technology
Television
Temperature
Tennis
Tension
Term
Test
Thanks
Theory
Thing
Thought
Throat
Time
Tongue
Tool
Tooth
Top
Topic
Town
Trade
Tradition
Trainer
Training
Transportation
Truth
Two
Type

List of Nouns that Start with U,V

Uncle
Understanding
Union
Unit
University
User
Value
Variation
Variety
Vehicle
Version
Video
View
Village
Virus
Voice
Volume

List of Nouns that Start with W,Y

War
Warning
Water
Way
Weakness
Wealth
Weather
Web
Wedding
Week
While
Wife
Wind
Winner
Woman
Wood
Word
Work
Worker
World
Writer
Writing
Year
Youth

Common Nouns List (with Pictures)

List of Nouns

List of Nouns (by Grammatical Functions)

Concrete Nouns

What is a Concrete Noun?

A concrete noun is a noun which is real or physical, you might think of it as something which can be perceived by your senses. Look at the following examples and notice how they use a sense to describe the noun, In both examples, the nouns-music and hands are real items which can be sensed.

I hear the music.
Her hands were wet.

Concrete Nouns List

Armchair
Aunt
Ball
Bermudas
Beans
Balloon
Bear
Blouse
Bed
Baby
Book
Blender
Bucket
Bakery
Bow
Bridge
Boat
Car
Cow
Cap
Cooker
Cheeks
Crest
Chest
Chair
Candy
Cabinet
Cat
Coffee
Charlie
Dog
Deer
Donkey
Desk
Desktop
Dentist
Drum
Dresser
Designer
Detective
Frog
Fan
Freezer
Fish
Film
Foot
Flag
Guest
Hamburger
Jewelry

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Concrete Noun Examples

Common Nouns and Proper Nouns

A common noun is a noun which can refer to a general name of an object. This type of noun does not use a capital letter unless it is appearing at the start of a sentence. The common noun is not used to identify a specific person, thing, or place.

A good example of a common noun is the word man. Using this noun does not allow us to determine a specific man. You can see this in the following sentence.

The man walked down the street.

When we read this sentence, all we know is that a man is walking down a street (which is also a common noun) but the identity of the street or the man is not revealed.

The other type of noun is a proper noun and this is used to talk about a specific person, item or place. The proper noun always uses a capital letter, whether it appears at the beginning, middle or end of the sentence. A good example of a proper noun would be the name of a person, for example Graham. Look at the following sentence.

Graham is walking down the road.

We can see from the use of the proper noun that we are being told about a specific person. Other proper nouns might be the names of towns and countries, for example:

Paris is a large city in France.

Both Paris and France are the proper nouns within this sentence.

Abstract Nouns

What Are Abstract Nouns?

The abstract noun is used to refer to something which is not tangible. We are now going to look at some examples of this, as you can see the nouns in the following phrases are not things which can be physically sensed.

He showed a lot of bravery when fighting the lion.
Sarah has a lot of intelligence.

Abstract Nouns List

Awareness
Awe
Beauty
Belief
Childhood
Clarity
Cleverness
Confusion
Contentment
Courage
Crime
Growth
Happiness
Hate
Hatred
Inflation
Insanity
Intelligence
Joy
Justice
Kindness
Laughter
Law
Liberty
Love
Luck
Luxury
Maturity
Need
Opinion
Opportunity
Pain
Principle
Reality
Relaxation
Sanity
Satisfaction
Self-control
Speed
Strenght
Strictness
Tiredness
Tolerance
Trend
Union
Unreality
Victory
Wariness
Warmth
Wealth

Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Countable and Uncountable nouns vary from language to language. In some languages, there are no countable nouns. In addition, some nouns that are uncountable in English may be countable in other languages.

Countable Nouns

Countable nouns are individual objects, people, places, etc. which can be counted.

Countable Nouns List

Apple
School
Student
Picture
House
Tree
Box
Book
Customer
Friend

Uncountable Nouns

Uncountable Nouns are substances, concepts, materials, information… that we cannot divide into separate elements. They cant be counted.

Uncountable Nouns List

Access
Adulthood
Alcohol
Business
Blood
Botany
Bacon
Chaos
Clothing
Confidence
Compassion
Calm
Cotton
Childhood
Coffee
Danger
Data
Dancing
Distribution
Dirt
Duty
Education
Economics
Equipment
Fame
Freedom
Glass
Grass
Golf
Hair
Hardware
Hydrogen
Hatred
Hunger
Honey
Importance
Intelligence
Industry
Jealousy
Jam
Jewelery
Innocence
Iron
Linguistics
Light
Loneliness
Music
Meat
Nurture
Psychology

NOTE: Some nouns are both countable and uncountable. They have been put in bold.

List of Nouns – Uncountable Noun Examples

Uncountable Noun Examples

Collective Nouns

What are Collective Nouns?

The collective noun is used to refer to a collection of things or people. They are used to refer to a singular verb and make it as though it were one entity. Lets take a look at some examples of collective nouns.

The pack of dogs ran wild through the town.
The choir sang loudly in the church.

Collective Nouns List

Herd
Pack
Flock
Swarm
Shoal
Group
Crowd
Gang
Mob
Staff
Crew
Choir
Orchestra
Panel
Board
Troupe
Bunch
Pile
Heap
Set
Stack
Series
Shower
Fall

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Collective Noun Examples

Compound Nouns

Compound Noun Definition

Compound nouns are words for people, animals, places, things, or ideas, made up of two or more words. Most compound nouns are made with nouns that have been modified by adjectives or other nouns.

Compound Nouns List

Airline
Airport
Aircraft
Armchair
Boyfriend
Battlefield
Briefcase
Butterfly
Countdown
Comeback
Background
Cupboard
Chopstick
Classmate
Daredevil
Daydream
Dragonfly
Everybody
Everything
Fireworks
Football
Footprint
Greenhouse
Hallway
Handcuff
Haircut
Homework
Horsefly
Houseboat
Inside
Moonlight
Myself
Notebook
Overdue
Pancake
Partnership
Photocopy
Raincoat
Rattlesnake
Ringworm
Skyscraper
Sandcastle
Snowboard
Sunshine
Teardrop
Teacup
Teapot
Thunderstorm
Timetable
Yourself

Compound Nouns List

Compound Noun Examples

Possessive Nouns

Possessive Noun Definition

Possessive nouns are nouns that show ownership or possession. Normally these words would be a singular or plural noun, but in the possessive form they are used as adjectives to modify another a noun or pronoun.

Possessive Nouns List

Cats toy
Charless car
Chriss exam
Childrens clothes
Mens shoes
Babies shoes
Lemons acidity
Owls eyes
Sisters room
Jims pen
My moms bag

Regular Plural Nouns

Forming Regular Plural Nouns

How to form regular plural nouns in English.

Most singular nouns are made plural by adding -s to the end of the singular form.
When a noun ends in a sibilant sound – /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/ or /dʒ/ – the plural is formed by adding -es, or -s if the singular already ends in -e.
The plural form of some nouns that end in f or fe is made by changing the ending to -V(es).
When a noun ends in o preceded by a consonant, the plural in many cases is spelled by adding -es.
Nouns that end in o preceded by a vowel are made plural by adding -s.
When the y follows a consonant, changing y to i and adding -es.
When the y follows a vowel, the plural is formed by retaining the y and adding -s.

Regular Plural Nouns List

car – cars
bag – bags
table – tables
house – houses
dog – dogs
kiss – kisses
dish – dishes
witch – witches
judge – judges
half – halves
hoof – hooves
calf – calves
elf – elves
shelf – shelves
leaf – leaves
loaf – loaves
thief – thieves
wolf – wolves
life – lives
knife – knives
scarf – scarves
wife – wives
cuff – cuffs
knockoff – knockoffs
chef – chefs
belief – beliefs
roof – roofs
chief – chiefs
potato – potatoes
tomato – tomatoes
hero – heroes
echo – echoes
veto – vetoes
domino – dominoes
mosquito – mosquitoes
volcano – volcanoes
piano – pianos
photo – photos
halo – halos
soprano – sopranos
radio – radios
stereo – stereos
video – videos
country – countries
family – families
cherry – cherries
lady – ladies
puppy – puppies
party – parties
holiday – holidays

Irregular Plural Nouns

Irregular Plural Noun Definition

Irregular plural nouns are nouns that do not become plural by adding -s or -es, as most nouns in the English language do. For example, the plural form of man is men, not mans. The plural form of woman is women, not womans.

Irregular Plural Nouns List

Aircraft – aircraft
Barracks – barracks
Deer – deer
Gallows – gallows
Moose – moose
Salmon – salmon
Hovercraft – hovercraft
Spacecraft – spacecraft
Series – series
Species – species
Means – means
Offspring – offspring
Deer – deer
Fish – fish
Sheep – sheep
Offspring – offspring
Trout – trout
Swine – swine
Person – people
Ox – oxen
Man – men
Woman – women
Caveman – cavemen
Policeman – policemen
Child – children
Tooth – teeth
Foot – feet
Goose – geese
Mouse – mice
Louse – lice
Penny – pence
Index – indices /indexes
Matrix – matrices
Vertex – vertices
Appendix – appendices
Alumnus – alumni
Corpus – corpora
Census – censuses
Focus – foci
Genus – genera
Prospectus – prospectuses
Radius – radii
Campus – campuses
Succubus – succubi

Irregular Plural Noun Examples

Irregular Plural Noun Examples

List of Nouns by Gender

List of masculine and feminine words in English:

Masculine – Feminine
Sir – Madam
Uncle – Aunt
Nephew – Niece
Wizard – Witch
Hart – Roe
Drake – Duck
Lion – Lioness
Priest – Priestess
Prophet – Prophetess
Patron – Patroness
Host – Hostess
Viscount – Viscountess
Shepherd – Shepherdess
Steward – Stewardess
Heir – Heiress
Baron – Baroness
Peer – Peeress
Abbot – Abbess
Emperor – Empress
Traitor – Traitress
Actor – Actress
Benefactor – Benefactress
Hunter – Huntress
Tempter – Temptress
Master – Mistress
Tiger – Tigress
Duke – Duchess
Enchanter – Enchantress
Songster – Songstress
Hero – Heroine
Sultan – Sultana
Czar – Czarina
Signor – Signora
Manservant – Maidservant
He-goat – She-goat
Cock-sparrow – Hen-sparrow
Bull-calf – Cow-calf
Grandfather – Grandmother
Landlord – Landlady
Milkman – Milkmaid
Peacock – Peahen
Giant – Giantess
Count – Countess

Gender of Nouns