proper nounspecialized

Examples

Can you tell the difference between a common noun and a proper noun?
In the sentence 'Mary had a little lamb', there is one common noun.
Names of places are proper nouns, not common nouns.
A common noun doesn't usually begin with a capital letter unless it is at the beginning of the sentence.
The phrase "a jug of water" contains two common nouns - one countable and one uncountable.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: parts of speech
abstract noun
adj
adjectival
adjectivally
adjunct
adv
adverb
adverbial
article
concrete noun
conj
conjunction
connective
count noun
countable noun
definite article
part of speech
prep
pronoun
relative pronoun

Examples from literature

Boy is applied in common to all young males of the human species, and as such is a common noun or name. 
Common nouns are names applied to a whole kind or species. 
From your reading bring up sentences containing ten common nouns, five proper, five abstract. 
It is easy to see that when we have named these class ideas we have our list of common nouns. 
It will be observed that in many places I have capitalized the common noun Lake. 

common noun | American Dictionary

common noun
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈkɑm·ən ˈnɑʊn/
(in grammar) a name for any group of people, places, or things that are of the same type:
The words "teacher," "river," and "table" are common nouns.

Examples of common noun

common noun
For example, an ending-guessing rule says: a word is a plural commonnoun if it ends with 's'.
For example, a commonnoun functioning as the head of a noun phrase normally indicates an object or entity and has a criterion of identity.
In all three cases above, the commonnoun or adjective of the pair is reduplicated, resulting in a word with two consonants.
He continued to rage against what he had once called the fallacy of the commonnoun.
According to the new theory of reference, the semantic content of a typical commonnoun is determined by its extension.
That the content of a typical commonnoun is determined by its extension undermines criterialism.
By contrast, according to the old criterialist story about content, the content of a commonnoun is given by an extension-fixing criterion.
The commonnoun pad, for instance, is ambiguous : it means 'path ' when it is neuter, and ' toad ' when it is masculine.
In this particular example, the relevant frame is the item-based construction based on the word the that opens up a following slot for a commonnoun.
The commonnoun horse, for instance, is a count noun, since it can be combined with the numeral one in the singular and with two in the plural.
While there is a lot about word learning that could conceivably be language-specific, determining the extension of a commonnoun is an unlikely candidate for a dedicated process.
For those who know it as a geographer's term, unembedded in a local context, the possibilities are less constrained, and it can behave more like a classical commonnoun.
It is a commonnoun.
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