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