A noun is a naming word - a word for a person or a thing. For example, Amélie, a book, school, food. In English, nouns are the words you can put the (definite articles – the book, the shoe ...

Nouns are words that name people, places or things. For example, ‘man’ and ‘kitchen’ are nouns. One word is naming a person and the other is naming a place. ‘Cake’ is another example.