Nomen may refer to: * Nomen (Roman name), the middle part of Ancient Roman names ** ''Nomen est omen'', a Latin quote about nominative determinism * Nomen (ancient Egypt), the personal name of Ancient Egyptian pharaohs * Jaume Nomen (born 1960), Catalan astronomer *''Nomen'', Latin for noun In grammar, a noun is a word that denotes a concrete or abstract entity, like living creatures, places, actions, events, qualities, states of existence, and ideas. To summarize this, nouns signify an object or idea. A noun may serve as an objec ... *Nomen, part of the FRSAD library model See also *Nō-men, the mask used in Noh performances * ''Nomina'' (journal), published by the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland {{Disambiguation ...

In grammar, a noun is a word that denotes a concrete or abstract entity, like living creatures, places, actions, events, qualities, states of existence, and ideas. To summarize this, nouns signify an object or idea. A noun may serve as an object or subject within a phrase, clause, or sentence.Example nouns for: * Living creatures (including people, alive, dead, or imaginary): ''mushrooms, dogs, Afro-Caribbeans, rosebushes, Mandela, bacteria, Klingons'', etc. * Physical objects: ''hammers, pencils, Earth, guitars, atoms, stones, boots, shadows'', etc. * Places: ''closets, temples, rivers, Antarctica, houses, Uluru, utopia'', etc. * Actions of individuals or groups: ''swimming, exercises, cough, explosions, flight, electrification, embezzlement'', etc. * Physical qualities: ''colors, lengths, porosity, weights, roundness, symmetry, solidity,'' etc. * Mental or bodily states: ''jealousy, sleep, joy, headache, confusion'', etc. In linguistics, nouns constitute a lexical ca ...