proper noun

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  proper noun    noun  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
proper noun (also proper name)

▶noun a name for an individual person, place, or organization, having an initial capital letter. Often contrasted with common noun.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
noun/naʊn/

▶noun Grammar a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things (common noun), or to name a particular one of these (proper noun).

– derivatives
nounal adjective.

– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr., from L. nomen ‘name’.