Adjectival noun may refer to:
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Adjectival noun (Japanese) In descriptions of the Japanese language, an adjectival noun, adjectival, or ''na''-adjective is a noun that can function as an adjective by taking the particle 〜な ''-na''. (In comparison, regular nouns can function adjectivally by taking the ...
, also called adjectival or ''na''-adjective
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Noun adjunct
In grammar, a noun adjunct, attributive noun, qualifying noun, noun (pre)modifier, or apposite noun is an optional noun that modifies another noun; functioning similarly to an adjective, it is, more specifically, a noun functioning as a pre-modif ...
, a noun that qualifies another noun, like ''college'' in ''college student''
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Nominalized adjective, an adjective which has come to function as a noun, as in ''the rich and the poor''
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Adjective
In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated ) is a word that generally modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes its referent. Its semantic role is to change information given by the noun.
Traditionally, adjectives were considered one of the ma ...
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Noun (disambiguation)
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