1) proper noun. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...A noun belonging to the class of words used as names for unique individuals, events, or places. Also called proper name....
2) Democrat, Democratic. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...The proper noun is the name of a member of a major American political party; the adjective Democratic is used in its official name, the Democratic party. Democrat...
3) revelation, Revelation(s). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.
1993
...A revelation is a revealing or disclosing of something; the proper noun (usually without a final -s, but informally often with one) is the name of the final book...
4) River. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...Convention dictates whether River comes first or last in a proper noun: it s the River Avon, but the Ohio River; the Thames and the Nile can have it either way, but...
5) republican, Republican. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.
1993
...that is, they favor establishing a republican form of government. Capitalized, the proper noun names a Republican, a member of one of the two major American political...
6) Newspeak. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...Standard as either proper or common noun, was coined by George Orwell in his novel 1984; it means deceptive or lying language used by government to manipulate its...
7) 4126. R Buckminster Fuller. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 4126 AUTHOR: R Buckminster Fuller QUOTATION: God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. ATTRIBUTION: No More Secondhand God Southern...
8) Divus. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...Augustus of blessed memory, not divine Augustus. Of course, the noun "divus" opposite to a proper noun = a god, as in Horace, 3 Odes v. 2, "Proesens divus habebitur...
9) welsh, welch, Welsh, welch, welsh, welcher, welsher. The Columbia Guide to
Standard American English. 1993
...Welsh is their language; pronounce it WELSH. Welch is an occasional variant spelling of both proper noun and adjective and reflects a variant pronunciation, WELCH....
10) 24190. Fuller, R. Buckminster. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:24190 QUOTATION:Here is God's purpose-for God, to me, it seems,is a verbnot a noun,proper or improper. ATTRIBUTION:R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), U.S....
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