noun phrase

English

Noun

Examples

“Fred” in “Fred fell asleep at the keyboard.” “The day Fred . . . keyboard” in “The day Fred fell asleep at the keyboard was very hot, and he had had too much to drink at lunchtime.” “banana” (a noun) “big bananas” (an adjective 'big', and a plural noun) “a big banana” (an article 'a', an adjective and a singular noun) “this big banana” (a determiner 'this', an adjective and a singular noun) “a very big banana” (an article, an adverb 'very', defining an adjective, and a singular noun) “a very big banana that tastes great” (an article, an adverb defining an adjective, and a singular noun; followed by a relative clause made up of a relative pronoun 'that', a verb 'tastes', and an adjective 'great')

noun phrase (plural noun phrases)

1. (grammar) A phrase that has a noun (or indefinite pronoun) as its head or performs the same grammatical function as a noun.

   The term "restaurant supply service" is a noun phrase, as are "red blood cell" and "happy cat".

   Many collocations are noun phrases.

Hypernyms

• nonclause

Hyponyms

• compound noun of open compound type

Coordinate terms

• compound word

(types of phrases, by part of speech):

• adjective phrase
• adverbial phrase
• conjunctional phrase
• interjectional phrase
• prepositional phrase

(parts of speech, of phrasal type):

• phrasal noun (not to be confused)
• phrasal preposition
• phrasal verb
• pronominal phrase
• verb phrase

Translations

phrase that can serve as the subject or the object of a verb

Basque: (please verify) izen-sintagma Breton: rannfrazenn anv f, sintagm-anv m Catalan: sintagma nominal m Chinese: Mandarin: 名詞短語／名词短语 (míngcí duǎnyǔ) Dutch: nominale constituent m Finnish: substantiivilauseke (fi), nominilauseke French: groupe nominal (fr) m, syntagme nominal (fr) m Galician: sintagma nominal (gl) m German: Nominalphrase (de) f Greek: ονοματική φράση (el) f (onomatikí frási) Hungarian: főnévi csoport, főnévi kifejezés, főnévi szerkezet Icelandic: nafnliður m Interlingua: phrase substantival Italian: locuzione nominale (it) f Japanese: 名詞句 (めいしく, meishiku) Khmer: កន្សោមនាម (kɑnsaom niem) Korean: 명사구 (ko) (myeongsagu) Malay: (please verify) frasa nama Norwegian: Norwegian Bokmål: substantivfrase (no) m Norwegian Nynorsk: substantivfrase f Persian: گروه اسمی (fa) Polish: fraza rzeczownikowa f Portuguese: locução substantiva (pt) f, locução nominal f Punjabi: (please verify) ਨਾਂਵ ਵਾਕੰਸ਼ (nā̃v vākãś) Romanian: locuțiune substantivală f Russian: именно́е словосочета́ние n (imennóje slovosočetánije), субстанти́вное словосочета́ние n (substantívnoje slovosočetánije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: и̏меничка̄ фра́за f Roman: ȉmeničkā fráza f Spanish: sintagma nominal m, grupo nominal m Swedish: nominalfras (sv) c Turkish: ad öbeği Vietnamese: cụm danh từ (vi) Welsh: ymadrodd enwol m

Further reading

• noun phrase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia