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Significados de common noun en inglés

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нарицательное
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apelativo
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nom comú

Noun (or noun phrase) that primarily refers to a class of entities or instances.

      apelativo
      Uso de common noun en inglés
      1
      It means hero the common noun, not Hero the proper name.
      Infelice
      2
      It's all 'indicative mood, common noun, third person, singular number, and agrees with John.'
      The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 / A Magazin...
      3
      Thus whenever we use any common noun, e.g.
      A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1
      4
      On the other hand, many comedies have a common noun as their title: l'Avare, le Joueur, etc.
      Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
      5
      Since "referendum" is a common noun it can have no participial form and so cannot be a gerund.
      The Irish Times
      6
      Sir, -The Irish Times's house style of all lower case "queen" for Queen Elizabeth, as if she were a common noun, is an anachronism.
      The Irish Times
      7
      From your reading bring up sentences containing ten common nouns, five proper, five abstract.
      An English Grammar
      8
      He gives her the words, three short common nouns.
      Keeper: one house, three generations, and a journey into alzheim...
      9
      Kleenex has faced this battle, as has Xerox, Frisbee, Jeep and Spam -popular common nouns all.
      Wired
      10
      The one was a nurse; the other, a box, both common nouns, and merely articles to be conveyed to Gleneesh according to orders.
      The Rosary