A content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action.

Roget 564: nomenclature; naming etc. v.; nuncupation^†, nomination, baptism; orismology^†; onomatopoeia; antonomasia^†.    name; appelation^†, appelative^†; designation, title; heading, rubric; caption; denomination; by-name, epithet.    style, proper name; praenomen [Lat.], agnomen^†, cognomen; patronymic, surname; cognomination^†; eponym; compellation^†, description, antonym; empty title, empty name; handle to one's name; namesake.    term, expression, noun; byword; convertible terms etc. 522; technical term; cant etc. 563.    ... show more

Dutch: nomen, zelfstandig naamwoord, substantief
Polish: abstractum, rzeczownik abstrakcyjny

The word class that can serve as the subject or object of a verb, the object of a preposition, or in apposition.