attributive noun
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English
Noun
attributive noun (plural attributive nouns)
- (grammar) Synonym of noun adjunct (“a noun that modifies another noun attributively”)
- Synonyms: noun adjunct, noun modifier, noun premodifier, qualifying noun, apposite noun
- (grammar, when referring to a language other than English) A noun denoting bearer of a quality or an attribute of a subject, in reference to the lexical morpheme from which it is derived.
Translations
a noun that modifies another noun attributively
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