Noun (definition)
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traditionally a noun is seen as a person, place, or thing. Linguistics wise any word that can function as a subject or an object of a clause. Also, be analyzed by number, gender, case, countability.
References
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. The language library. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997.
Matthews, P. H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
