Proper name
noun
noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A word or phrase that has noun part of speech and names a specific object, usually capitalized, for example Martin or New York.
"A proper name, when it occurs in a proposition, is always, at least according to one of the possible ways of analysis (where there are several), the subject that the proposition or some subordinate constituent proposition is about, and not what is said about the subject."
- 2 a noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized wordnet
Example
More examples"A proper name, when it occurs in a proposition, is always, at least according to one of the possible ways of analysis (where there are several), the subject that the proposition or some subordinate constituent proposition is about, and not what is said about the subject."