Definition
名词 primarily means 'noun' in grammar, but it also covers 'term' or 'name' in professional or academic contexts (e.g., 专业名词 'technical term'). As a grammatical noun, it refers to words for people, places, things, or abstract concepts. In research papers and textbooks, 名词 often appears in compounds like 名词解释 ('definition of a term').
n.
(grammar) nounterm(professional) name
Examples
- 名词。Xuéxí yì mén yǔyán yào xiān zhǎngwò jīběn míng cí.To learn a language, you must first master basic nouns.
- 名词，。Zhè shì yí gè zhuānyè míng cí, xūyào chá yíxià cídiǎn.This is a technical term; you need to look it up in a dictionary.
- ，名词。Zài yǔfǎ fēnxī zhōng, míng cí hé dòngcí de gōngnéng wánquán bùtóng.In grammatical analysis, nouns and verbs have completely different functions.
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